South Africa, sentence 488
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.
While the many broadcasters and publications reflect the diversity of the population as a whole, the most commonly used language is English.
Who acts: many broadcasters, used language · What happens: reflect, use, be · To what, where: diversity, English
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 (many broadcasters, used language), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 reflect | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 broadcasters | det |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 broadcasters | amod |
| 4 | broadcasters | broadcaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reflect | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 publications | cc |
| 6 | publications | publication | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 broadcasters | conj |
| 7 | reflect | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 English | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 diversity | det |
| 9 | diversity | diversity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reflect | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 population | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 population | det |
| 12 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 diversity | nmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 whole | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 whole | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reflect | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reflect | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 language | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 commonly | advmod |
| 19 | commonly | commonly | ADV | _ | 20 used | advmod |
| 20 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 language | amod |
| 21 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 English | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 English | cop |
| 23 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 English | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | present | the many broadcasters and publications | the diversity of the population | as a whole | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | participle | commonly property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the used language | English | tree rules |
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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