South Africa, sentence 503
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.
In 2015, the Oliver Hermanus film The Endless River became the first South African film selected for the Venice Film Festival.
Who acts: Hermanus film · What happens: become, select · To what, where: first South African film, 2015
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 (Hermanus film), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2015 | case |
| 2 | 2015 | 2015 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 became | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2015 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 film | det |
| 5 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Hermanus | compound |
| 6 | Hermanus | Hermanus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 film | compound |
| 7 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 became | nsubj |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 River | det |
| 9 | Endless | Endless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 River | compound |
| 10 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 became | nsubj |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 film | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 film | amod |
| 14 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 film | compound |
| 15 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 film | amod |
| 16 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 became | xcomp |
| 17 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 film | acl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 Festival | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Festival | det |
| 20 | Venice | Venice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Festival | compound |
| 21 | Film | Film | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Festival | compound |
| 22 | Festival | Festival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 selected | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the Hermanus film | the first South African film | in 2015 result; the Endless River nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2015=Result | |||
| 2 | select | participle | the first South African film not said here | for the Venice Film Festival | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: 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.
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