South Africa, sentence 475
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.
It is estimated that there are 1,200,000 orphans in South Africa.
Who acts: 1,200,000 orphans · What happens: estimate, be · To what, where: infection
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 (1,200,000 orphans), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 estimated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 estimated | aux:pass |
| 3 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 are | mark |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 are | expl |
| 6 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 estimated | ccomp |
| 7 | 1,200,000 | 1,200,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 orphans | nummod |
| 8 | orphans | orphan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 are | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Africa | case |
| 10 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Africa | compound |
| 11 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 orphans | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 estimated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | estimate | present · passive | infection | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | does | present | 1,200,000 orphans in South Africa | 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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