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# Namibia, sentence 99

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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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This gave the party 41 seats, but not a two-thirds majority, which would have enabled it to draft the constitution on its own.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** give, enable, draft · **To what, where:** party, thirds majority, constitution, own

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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 (This), 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:99
# text = This gave the party 41 seats, but not a two-thirds majority, which would have enabled it to draft the constitution on its own.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	41	41	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	thirds	third	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	compound	_	_
14	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	enabled	enable	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	draft	draft	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | This | the party |  |  |  | a thirds majority *obl*; 41 seats *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent party=Recipient seat=Theme |
| 2 | **enable** | would · perfect · passive |  | a thirds majority |  |  |  | Party *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **draft** | to-infinitive |  | the constitution |  | constitution's own |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitution=Result |

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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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