South Africa, sentence 300
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.
In the 2023 International SWAT Competition, the STF ranked 9th out of 55 international law enforcement teams, making it the highest-ranked African police unit and one of the world's best.
Who acts: STF · What happens: rank, make · To what, where: 9th, International SWAT Competition, STF
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 (STF), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 Competition | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Competition | det |
| 3 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 Competition | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | International | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Competition | amod |
| 5 | SWAT | swat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Competition | compound |
| 6 | Competition | competition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ranked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Competition | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 STF | det |
| 9 | STF | STF | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ranked | nsubj |
| 10 | ranked | rank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | 9th | 9th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 10 ranked | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 teams | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 teams | case |
| 14 | 55 | 55 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 teams | nummod |
| 15 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 teams | amod |
| 16 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enforcement | compound |
| 17 | enforcement | enforcement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 teams | compound |
| 18 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ranked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 making | punct |
| 20 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 ranked | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 making | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 unit | det |
| 23 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 unit | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 highest | punct |
| 25 | ranked | rank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 unit | amod |
| 26 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 police | amod |
| 27 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 unit | compound |
| 28 | unit | unit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 making | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 one | cc |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 unit | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 best | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 best | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 world | case |
| 35 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 one | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ranked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rank | past | the STF | 9th | the International SWAT Competition 2023 | out 55 international enforcement teams | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent 9th=Theme | ||
| 2 | make | gerund | the STF not said here | STF | the highest ranked police unit obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary unit=Product | |||
| 3 | rank | participle | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
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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