South Africa, sentence 314
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.
South Africa has a mixed economy characterised by a large services sector, diversified industrial base and abundant natural resources.
Who acts: South Africa · What happens: have, mix, characteris, diversify · To what, where: mixed economy, industrial base
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 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Africa | compound |
| 2 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 economy | det |
| 5 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 economy | amod |
| 6 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | characterised | characteris | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 economy | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 sector | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sector | det |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 services | amod |
| 11 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sector | compound |
| 12 | sector | sector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 characterised | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 diversified | punct |
| 14 | diversified | diversify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 economy | conj |
| 15 | industrial | industrial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 base | amod |
| 16 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 diversified | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 resources | cc |
| 18 | abundant | abundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 resources | amod |
| 19 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 resources | amod |
| 20 | resources | resource | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 base | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | South Africa | a mixed economy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent economy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mix | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | characteris | participle | a mixed economy not said here | by a services sector | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | diversify | participle | South Africa not said here | industrial base and abundant natural resources | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent base=Patient |
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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