South Africa, sentence 441
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.
There are an estimated 200,000 traditional healers, and up to 60% of South Africans consult these healers, generally called sangoma ('diviner') or inyanga ('herbalist').
Who acts: estimated 200,000 traditional healers, healers · What happens: be, estimate, consult, call · To what, where: healers, sangoma · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (estimated 200,000 traditional healers, healers), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 healers | det |
| 4 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 healers | amod |
| 5 | 200,000 | 200000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 healers | nummod |
| 6 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 healers | amod |
| 7 | healers | healer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 consult | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 consult | cc |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 consult | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 % | case |
| 12 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 % | nummod |
| 13 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 17 consult | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Africans | case |
| 15 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Africans | compound |
| 16 | Africans | African | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 % | nmod |
| 17 | consult | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 are | parataxis |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 healers | det |
| 19 | healers | healer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 consult | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 21 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 22 called | advmod |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 healers | acl |
| 23 | sangoma | sangoma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 diviner | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 diviner | punct |
| 26 | diviner | diviner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sangoma | appos |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 diviner | punct |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 diviner | punct |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 inyanga | cc |
| 30 | inyanga | inyanga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sangoma | conj |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 herbalist | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 herbalist | punct |
| 33 | herbalist | herbalist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 inyanga | appos |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 herbalist | punct |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 herbalist | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | a estimated 200,000 traditional healers | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | estimate | participle | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | consult | present | this healers | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent healer=Theme | |||||
| 4 | call | participle | this healers not said here | sangoma or inyanga | generally property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Africa/441/