Pretoria, sentence 172
From Wikipedia, «Pretoria», 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.
It is a combination of Tswana and Northern Sotho (Pedi), with influences from Tsotsitaal and other black South African languages.
Who acts: newspaper · What happens: be · To what, where: combination
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Pretoria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (newspaper), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 combination | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 combination | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 combination | det |
| 4 | combination | combination | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Tswana | case |
| 6 | Tswana | Tswana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 combination | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Sotho | cc |
| 8 | Northern | Northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Sotho | amod |
| 9 | Sotho | Sotho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tswana | conj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pedi | punct |
| 11 | Pedi | Pedi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sotho | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pedi | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 influences | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 influences | case |
| 15 | influences | influence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 combination | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Tsotsitaal | case |
| 17 | Tsotsitaal | Tsotsitaal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 influences | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 languages | cc |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 languages | amod |
| 20 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 languages | amod |
| 21 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 languages | compound |
| 22 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 languages | amod |
| 23 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Tsotsitaal | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 combination | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | newspaper | a combination and influences from Tsotsitaal and other black South African languages | of Tswana and Northern Sotho; influences from Tsotsitaal and other black South African languages conj | tree rules |
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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