South Africa, sentence 173
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.
The coastal belt to the north of the Cape Peninsula is bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean and the first row of north–south running Cape Fold Mountains to the east.
What happens: bound, run · To what, where: coastal belt, west
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 belt | det |
| 2 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 belt | amod |
| 3 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bounded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 north | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 north | det |
| 6 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belt | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Peninsula | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Peninsula | det |
| 9 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Peninsula | compound |
| 10 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 north | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 bounded | aux:pass |
| 12 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 west | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 west | det |
| 15 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bounded | obl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Ocean | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Ocean | det |
| 18 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ocean | compound |
| 19 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 west | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 row | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 row | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 row | amod |
| 23 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 west | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Mountains | case |
| 25 | north | north | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Mountains | amod |
| 26 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 running | punct |
| 27 | south | south | ADV | _ | 28 running | advmod |
| 28 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 Mountains | amod |
| 29 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Mountains | compound |
| 30 | Fold | Fold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Cape | flat |
| 31 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 row | nmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 east | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 east | det |
| 34 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Mountains | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 bounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | present · passive | the coastal belt to the north of the Cape Peninsula | the west by the Atlantic Ocean and the first row of north running Cape Mountains to the east | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | south property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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