South Africa, sentence 227

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.

While South Africa has a great wealth of flowering plants, only 1% of the land is forest, almost exclusively in the humid coastal plain of KwaZulu-Natal, where there are also areas of Southern Africa mangroves in river mouths.

Who acts: South Africa, areas · What happens: have, flower, be · To what, where: great wealth, % forest

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, areas), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 has	mark
2	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Africa	compound
3	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 forest	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wealth	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wealth	amod
7	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 plants	case
9	flowering	flower	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 plants	amod
10	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wealth	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 1	advmod
13	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 %	nummod
14	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	19 forest	compound
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 land	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 land	det
17	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 %	nmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 forest	cop
19	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 plain	punct
21	almost	almost	ADV	_	22 exclusively	advmod
22	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	27 plain	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 plain	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 plain	det
25	humid	humid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 plain	amod
26	coastal	coastal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 plain	amod
27	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 forest	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 KwaZulu	case
29	KwaZulu	KwaZulu	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 plain	nmod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Natal	punct
31	Natal	Natal	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 KwaZulu	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 are	punct
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 are	advmod
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 are	expl
35	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 plain	parataxis
36	also	also	ADV	_	35 are	advmod
37	areas	area	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 are	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 mangroves	case
39	Southern	Southern	PROPN	_	40 Africa	flat
40	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 mangroves	compound
41	mangroves	mangrove	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 areas	nmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 mouths	case
43	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 mouths	compound
44	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 mangroves	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 forest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	South Africa	a great wealth of flowering plants			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Patient
2	flower	gerund					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present		% forest		the humid coastal plain of KwaZulu and Natal appos	tree rules
4	does	present	areas of Africa mangroves in river mouths		there		vn exist-47.1 «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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «South Africa», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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South Africa, sentence 227