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title: Over the past years, the country usually ranked in the upper quarter… — Namibia · tree and pragmatics
description: Over the past years, the country usually ranked in the upper quarter of the Press Freedom Index of Reporters without Borders, reaching position 21 in 2010, being on par with Canada and the best-positioned African country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Namibia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Namibia, sentence 443

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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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Over the past years, the country usually ranked in the upper quarter of the Press Freedom Index of Reporters without Borders, reaching position 21 in 2010, being on par with Canada and the best-positioned African country.

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**What happens:** rank, reach, be, position · **To what, where:** country, upper quarter, position, par

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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: 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:443
# text = Over the past years, the country usually ranked in the upper quarter of the Press Freedom Index of Reporters without Borders, reaching position 21 in 2010, being on par with Canada and the best-positioned African country.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	ranked	rank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	Press	Press	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	Freedom	Freedom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Index	Index	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Reporters	Reporter	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	without	without	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
25	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	appos	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	par	par	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
37	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	positioned	position	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
40	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rank** | participle · passive |  | the country |  | the upper quarter of the Press Freedom Index of Reporters | year | without Borders; usually *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | gerund |  | position |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent position=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | par and the positioned African country |  | with Canada; the positioned African country *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **position** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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