South Africa, sentence 446
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 African Muslims describe their faith as the fastest-growing religion of conversion in the country, with the number of black Muslims growing sixfold, from 12,000 in 1991 to 74,700 in 2004.
Who acts: African Muslims, black Muslims · What happens: describe, grow · To what, where: faith, country, sixfold
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 (African Muslims, black Muslims), 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 | ADV | _ | 2 African | advmod |
| 2 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Muslims | amod |
| 3 | Muslims | Muslim | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 describe | nsubj |
| 4 | describe | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 faith | nmod:poss |
| 6 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 describe | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 religion | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 religion | det |
| 9 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 growing | advmod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 fastest | punct |
| 11 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 religion | amod |
| 12 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 describe | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 conversion | case |
| 14 | conversion | conversion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 religion | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 describe | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 number | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 number | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 number | det |
| 21 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 describe | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Muslims | case |
| 23 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Muslims | amod |
| 24 | Muslims | Muslim | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 number | nmod |
| 25 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 Muslims | acl |
| 26 | sixfold | sixfold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 growing | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 12,000 | punct |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 12,000 | case |
| 29 | 12,000 | 12,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 describe | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 1991 | case |
| 31 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 12,000 | nmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 74,700 | case |
| 33 | 74,700 | 74,700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 12,000 | nmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 2004 | case |
| 35 | 2004 | 2004 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 74,700 | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 describe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present | African Muslims | Muslims's faith | the country | as the growing religion of conversion; with the number of black Muslims; from 12,000 in 1991 to 74,700 in 2004 | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent faith=Theme as religion=Attribute | ||
| 2 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | black Muslims not said here | sixfold | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sixfold=Theme |
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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