South Africa, sentence 381
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.
Port infrastructure is managed by the Transnet National Ports Authority, which plays a central role in supporting domestic logistics and international trade.
Who acts: Transnet Ports Authority · What happens: manage, play, support · To what, where: Port infrastructure, central role, domestic logistics
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 (Transnet Ports Authority), 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 | Port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 infrastructure | compound |
| 2 | infrastructure | infrastructure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 managed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 managed | aux:pass |
| 4 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Authority | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Authority | det |
| 7 | Transnet | Transnet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Authority | compound |
| 8 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Ports | amod |
| 9 | Ports | Port | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 Authority | compound |
| 10 | Authority | Authority | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 managed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 plays | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 plays | nsubj |
| 13 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Authority | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 role | det |
| 15 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 role | amod |
| 16 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plays | obj |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 supporting | mark |
| 18 | supporting | support | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 plays | advcl |
| 19 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 logistics | amod |
| 20 | logistics | logistic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 supporting | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 trade | cc |
| 22 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 trade | amod |
| 23 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 logistics | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | present · passive | the Transnet Ports Authority | Port infrastructure | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | play | present | the Transnet Ports Authority | a central role | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme | ||||
| 3 | support | gerund | the Transnet Ports Authority not said here | domestic logistics and international trade | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer logistic=Stimulus |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «South Africa», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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