South Africa, sentence 459
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 23 public universities in South Africa: 11 traditional universities, 6 universities of technology, and 6 comprehensive universities.
Who acts: 23 public universities · What happens: be
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 (23 public universities), 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 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 universities | nummod |
| 4 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 universities | amod |
| 5 | universities | university | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Africa | case |
| 7 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Africa | compound |
| 8 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 universities | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 universities | punct |
| 10 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 universities | nummod |
| 11 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 universities | amod |
| 12 | universities | university | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 universities | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 universities | punct |
| 14 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 universities | nummod |
| 15 | universities | university | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 universities | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 technology | case |
| 17 | technology | technology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 universities | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 universities | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 universities | cc |
| 20 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 universities | nummod |
| 21 | comprehensive | comprehensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 universities | amod |
| 22 | universities | university | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 universities | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | 23 public universities in South Africa and 11 traditional universities and 6 universities of technology and 6 comprehensive universities | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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