Bloemfontein, sentence 78
From Wikipedia, «Bloemfontein», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Bloemfontein is located in central South Africa on the southern edge of the Highveld at an elevation of 1400 m, bordering on the semi-arid region of the Karoo.
What happens: locate, border, elevate · To what, where: Bloemfontein, central South Africa, semi-arid region, 1400 m
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bloemfontein». 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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bloemfontein | Bloemfontein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 located | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 located | aux:pass |
| 3 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Africa | case |
| 5 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Africa | amod |
| 6 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Africa | compound |
| 7 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 located | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 edge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 edge | det |
| 10 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 edge | amod |
| 11 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 located | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Highveld | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Highveld | det |
| 14 | Highveld | Highveld | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 edge | nmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 elevation | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 elevation | det |
| 17 | elevation | elevation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 edge | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 m | case |
| 19 | 1400 | 1400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 m | nummod |
| 20 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 elevation | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bordering | punct |
| 22 | bordering | border | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 located | advcl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 region | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 region | det |
| 25 | semi-arid | semi-arid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 region | amod |
| 26 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bordering | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Karoo | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Karoo | det |
| 29 | Karoo | Karoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 region | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 located | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | present · passive | Bloemfontein | central South Africa | on the southern edge of the Highveld at a elevation of 1400 m | tree rules | |||
| 2 | border | gerund | the semi-arid region of the Karoo | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | elevate | 1400 m | nom elevation «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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