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# Namibia, sentence 74

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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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During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the accelerated decolonisation of Africa and mounting pressure on the remaining colonial powers to grant their colonies self-determination resulted in the formation of nascent nationalist parties in South West Africa.

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**What happens:** accelerate, mount, remain, grant, result, decolonise · **To what, where:** pressure, remaining colonial powers, colonies, self determination, formation, Africa

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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:74
# text = During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the accelerated decolonisation of Africa and mounting pressure on the remaining colonial powers to grant their colonies self-determination resulted in the formation of nascent nationalist parties in South West Africa.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	1950s	1950	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	1960s	1960s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	accelerated	accelerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	decolonisation	decolonisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	mounting	mount	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
16	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
20	colonial	colonial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	determination	determination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	formation	formation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	nascent	nascent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	nationalist	nationalist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
39	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accelerate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **mount** | gerund |  | pressure |  | the remaining colonial powers |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pressure=Theme on power=Destination |
| 3 | **remain** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grant** | to-infinitive |  | people's colonies  self determination |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent colony=Theme |
| 5 | **result** | participle |  | self determination *not said here* |  | the formation of nascent nationalist parties in South West Africa |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in formation=Location |
| 7 | **decolonise** |  |  | Africa |  |  |  |  | nom decolonisation «act transitive»: of=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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