South Africa, sentence 244
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 president appoints a deputy president and ministers (each representing a department) who form the cabinet.
Who acts: president, representing department · What happens: appoint, represent, form · To what, where: deputy president, cabinet
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 (president, representing department), 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 | 2 president | det |
| 2 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appoints | nsubj |
| 3 | appoints | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 president | det |
| 5 | deputy | deputy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 president | compound |
| 6 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appoints | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ministers | cc |
| 8 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 president | conj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 department | punct |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 department | det |
| 11 | representing | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 department | amod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 department | det |
| 13 | department | department | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ministers | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 department | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 form | nsubj |
| 16 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 department | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cabinet | det |
| 18 | cabinet | cabinet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 form | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appoints | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | present | the president | a deputy president and ministers | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent president=Theme | ||||
| 2 | represent | gerund | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | form | present | each representing department | the cabinet | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cabinet=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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