South Africa, sentence 133
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.
Pressured by other Commonwealth of Nations countries, South Africa withdrew from the organisation in 1961.
Who acts: South Africa · What happens: pressure, withdraw · To what, where: other Commonwealth, organisation
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 (South Africa), 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 | Pressured | pressure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 Commonwealth | case |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Commonwealth | amod |
| 4 | Commonwealth | Commonwealth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pressured | obl:agent |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 countries | case |
| 6 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 countries | compound |
| 7 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Commonwealth | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 withdrew | punct |
| 9 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Africa | compound |
| 10 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 withdrew | nsubj |
| 11 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Commonwealth | acl:relcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 organisation | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 organisation | det |
| 14 | organisation | organisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 withdrew | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1961 | case |
| 16 | 1961 | 1961 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 withdrew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pressured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pressure | participle | other Commonwealth of Nations countries obl:agent | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | withdraw | past | South Africa | other Commonwealth of Nations countries not said here | the organisation | in 1961 | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent commonwealth=Theme from organisation=Initial_Location |
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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