South Africa, sentence 175
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 most southerly portion of this coastal belt is known as the Swartland and Malmesbury Plain, which is an important wheat-growing region, relying on winter rains.
Who acts: Swartland · What happens: know, grow, be, rely · To what, where: southerly portion, important growing region
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 (Swartland), 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 | 4 portion | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 southerly | advmod |
| 3 | southerly | southerly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 portion | amod |
| 4 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 known | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 belt | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 belt | det |
| 7 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 belt | amod |
| 8 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 portion | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 known | aux:pass |
| 10 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 Swartland | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Swartland | det |
| 13 | Swartland | Swartland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 known | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Malmesbury | cc |
| 15 | Malmesbury | Malmesbury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Swartland | conj |
| 16 | Plain | Plain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Swartland | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 region | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 region | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 region | cop |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 region | det |
| 21 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 region | amod |
| 22 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 growing | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 wheat | punct |
| 24 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 region | amod |
| 25 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Swartland | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 relying | punct |
| 27 | relying | rely | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 known | parataxis |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 rains | case |
| 29 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rains | compound |
| 30 | rains | rain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 relying | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | the southerly portion of this coastal belt | as the Swartland and Malmesbury | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as swartland=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | wheat compound | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the Swartland and Malmesbury | a important growing region | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rely | gerund | on winter rains | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on rain=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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