South Africa, sentence 164
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.
This is hotter, drier and less intensely cultivated than the Highveld above the escarpment.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, cultivate · To what, where: escarpment
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 hotter | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hotter | cop |
| 3 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 drier | punct |
| 5 | drier | dry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 hotter | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cultivated | cc |
| 7 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 cultivated | advmod |
| 8 | intensely | intensely | ADV | _ | 9 cultivated | advmod |
| 9 | cultivated | cultivate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hotter | conj |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 Highveld | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Highveld | det |
| 12 | Highveld | Highveld | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cultivated | obl |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 15 escarpment | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 escarpment | det |
| 15 | escarpment | escarpment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cultivated | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hotter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | This not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | cultivate | participle | This not said here | the escarpment | than the Highveld; intensely, less property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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