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title: South Africa declined to do so and instead requested permission from… — Namibia · tree and pragmatics
description: South Africa declined to do so and instead requested permission from the UN to formally annex South West Africa, for which it received considerable criticism. Who acts: South Africa, League. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Namibia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Namibia, sentence 67

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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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South Africa declined to do so and instead requested permission from the UN to formally annex South West Africa, for which it received considerable criticism.

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**Who acts:** South Africa, League · **What happens:** decline, not do, request, annex, receive · **To what, where:** South West Africa, considerable criticism

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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 (South Africa, League), 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:67
# text = South Africa declined to do so and instead requested permission from the UN to formally annex South West Africa, for which it received considerable criticism.
1	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	declined	decline	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	requested	request	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	annex	annex	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
17	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	criticism	criticism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decline** | past | South Africa |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **do** | to-infinitive | South Africa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **request** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn beg-58.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **annex** | to-infinitive | South Africa *not said here* | South West Africa |  |  |  | formally *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent africa=Theme |
| 5 | **receive** | past | League | considerable criticism |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent criticism=Theme |

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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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