South Africa, sentence 217
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.
With more than 22,000 different vascular plants, or about 9% of all the known species of plants on Earth, South Africa is particularly rich in plant diversity.
Who acts: South Africa · What happens: know, be · To what, where: plant diversity
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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 7 plants | case |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 4 22,000 | advmod |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 2 more | fixed |
| 4 | 22,000 | 22,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 plants | nummod |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plants | amod |
| 6 | vascular | vascular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plants | amod |
| 7 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 % | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 % | cc |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 9 | advmod |
| 11 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 % | nummod |
| 12 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 7 plants | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 species | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 species | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 species | det |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 species | amod |
| 17 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 % | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 plants | case |
| 19 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 species | nmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 Earth | case |
| 21 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 plants | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rich | punct |
| 23 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Africa | compound |
| 24 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 rich | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 rich | cop |
| 26 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 27 rich | advmod |
| 27 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Earth | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 diversity | case |
| 29 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 diversity | compound |
| 30 | diversity | diversity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rich | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 plants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | South Africa | plant diversity | particularly, rich property | tree rules |
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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