South Africa, sentence 292
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.
Between 1980 and 1990, six operational nuclear devices were covertly assembled before the arsenal was voluntarily dismantled in 1991, making South Africa the first country to relinquish its nuclear capability.
What happens: assemble, dismantle, make, relinquish · To what, where: six operational nuclear devices, arsenal, 1991, South Africa, nuclear capability
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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 2 1980 | case |
| 2 | 1980 | 1980 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 assembled | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 1990 | cc |
| 4 | 1990 | 1990 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1980 | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1980 | punct |
| 6 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 devices | nummod |
| 7 | operational | operational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 devices | amod |
| 8 | nuclear | nuclear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 devices | amod |
| 9 | devices | device | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 assembled | aux:pass |
| 11 | covertly | covertly | ADV | _ | 12 assembled | advmod |
| 12 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 dismantled | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 arsenal | det |
| 15 | arsenal | arsenal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dismantled | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dismantled | aux:pass |
| 17 | voluntarily | voluntarily | ADV | _ | 18 dismantled | advmod |
| 18 | dismantled | dismantle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 assembled | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 1991 | case |
| 20 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 dismantled | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 making | punct |
| 22 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 assembled | advcl |
| 23 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Africa | compound |
| 24 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 making | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 country | det |
| 26 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 country | amod |
| 27 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 making | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 relinquish | mark |
| 29 | relinquish | relinquish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 making | advcl |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 capability | nmod:poss |
| 31 | nuclear | nuclear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 capability | amod |
| 32 | capability | capability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 relinquish | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past · passive | six operational nuclear devices | between 1980; covertly property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dismantle | past · passive | the arsenal | 1991 | voluntarily property | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | South Africa | the first country xcomp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset africa=Product | ||||
| 4 | relinquish | to-infinitive | country's nuclear capability | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent capability=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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