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title: Namibian culture is similar to South African culture due to their ti… — Namibia · tree and pragmatics
description: Namibian culture is similar to South African culture due to their tied history and family nationalities. Who acts: Namibian culture. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Namibia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Namibia, sentence 423

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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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Namibian culture is similar to South African culture due to their tied history and family nationalities.

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**Who acts:** Namibian culture · **What happens:** be, tie

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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 (Namibian culture), 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:423
# text = Namibian culture is similar to South African culture due to their tied history and family nationalities.
1	Namibian	namibian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	nationalities	nationality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Namibian culture |  |  |  |  | to South African culture; due cultures's tied history and family nationalities; similar *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tie** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «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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