South Africa, sentence 380
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 Port of Durban is the busiest container port in sub-Saharan Africa and the fourth-largest in the Southern Hemisphere, while the Port of Richards Bay is one of the world's largest bulk export facilities.
Who acts: Port · What happens: be · To what, where: busiest container port, sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Hemisphere, one
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 (Port), 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 Port | det |
| 2 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 port | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Durban | case |
| 4 | Durban | Durban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Port | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 port | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 port | det |
| 7 | busiest | busy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 port | amod |
| 8 | container | container | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 port | compound |
| 9 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Africa | case |
| 11 | sub-Saharan | sub-Saharan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Africa | compound |
| 12 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 port | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 largest | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 largest | det |
| 15 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 largest | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 largest | punct |
| 17 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 port | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Hemisphere | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Hemisphere | det |
| 20 | Southern | Southern | PROPN | _ | 21 Hemisphere | compound |
| 21 | Hemisphere | Hemisphere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 largest | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 one | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 one | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Port | det |
| 25 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 one | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Bay | case |
| 27 | Richards | Richards | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Bay | compound |
| 28 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Port | nmod |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 one | cop |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 port | parataxis |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 facilities | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 facilities | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 world | case |
| 35 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 facilities | amod |
| 36 | bulk | bulk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 export | compound |
| 37 | export | export | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 facilities | compound |
| 38 | facilities | facility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 one | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 port | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Port of Durban | the busiest container port | sub-Saharan Africa | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | the Port of Durban not said here | the Southern Hemisphere | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the Port of Richards Bay | one | of the world's largest export facilities | tree rules |
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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