South Africa, sentence 117
From Wikipedia, «South Africa», 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.
Eight years after the end of the Second Boer War, and after four years of negotiation, the South Africa Act 1909 created the Union of South Africa on 31 May 1910, granting the country nominal independence.
Who acts: Africa Act · What happens: create, grant · To what, where: Union, 31, nominal independence
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «South Africa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Africa Act), 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 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 created | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 end | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 years | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 War | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 War | det |
| 8 | Second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 War | amod |
| 9 | Boer | Boer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 War | compound |
| 10 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 years | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 years | cc |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 created | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 negotiation | case |
| 17 | negotiation | negotiation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 years | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Act | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Act | det |
| 20 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Africa | compound |
| 21 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Act | compound |
| 22 | Act | Act | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 created | nsubj |
| 23 | 1909 | 1909 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 Act | flat |
| 24 | created | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Union | det |
| 26 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 created | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Africa | case |
| 28 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Africa | compound |
| 29 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Union | nmod |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 31 | case |
| 31 | 31 | 31 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 created | obl |
| 32 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 31 | nmod:unmarked |
| 33 | 1910 | 1910 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 31 | flat |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 granting | punct |
| 35 | granting | grant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 created | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 independence | det |
| 37 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 nominal | compound |
| 38 | nominal | nominal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 independence | compound |
| 39 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 granting | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 created | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | past | the Africa Act | the Union of South Africa | 31 May | year | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=Result | ||
| 2 | grant | gerund | the Africa Act not said here | the nominal independence | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent independence=Theme |
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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