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title: The DHS observed important characteristics associated to the HIV epi… — Namibia · tree and pragmatics
description: The DHS observed important characteristics associated to the HIV epidemic: Who acts: DHS. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Namibia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Namibia, sentence 406

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From Wikipedia, [«Namibia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The DHS observed important characteristics associated to the HIV epidemic:

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**Who acts:** DHS · **What happens:** observe, associate · **To what, where:** important characteristics

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Namibia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (DHS), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Namibia:406
# text = The DHS observed important characteristics associated to the HIV epidemic:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	DHS	DHS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	characteristics	characteristic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	associated	associate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	HIV	hiv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	epidemic	epidemic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | past | the DHS | important characteristics |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent characteristic=Topic |
| 2 | **associate** | participle |  | important characteristics *not said here* |  |  |  | to the HIV epidemic | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Namibia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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