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title: In 1870, Finnish missionaries came to the northern part of Namibia t… — Namibia · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1870, Finnish missionaries came to the northern part of Namibia to spread the Lutheran religion among the Owambo and Kavango people. Who acts: Finnish missionaries. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Namibia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Namibia, sentence 41

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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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In 1870, Finnish missionaries came to the northern part of Namibia to spread the Lutheran religion among the Owambo and Kavango people.

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**Who acts:** Finnish missionaries · **What happens:** come, spread · **To what, where:** 1870, Lutheran religion

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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 (Finnish missionaries), 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:41
# text = In 1870, Finnish missionaries came to the northern part of Namibia to spread the Lutheran religion among the Owambo and Kavango people.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1870	1870	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Finnish	finnish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Namibia	Namibia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Lutheran	Lutheran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	Owambo	Owambo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Kavango	Kavango	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Finnish missionaries |  |  | 1870 |  | to the northern part of Namibia | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to part=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **spread** | to-infinitive | Finnish missionaries *not said here* | the Lutheran religion |  |  |  | among the Owambo people | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent religion=Theme among people=Destination |

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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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