South Africa, sentence 507
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.
Notable white South African authors include anti-apartheid activist Alan Paton, who published the novel Cry, the Beloved Country in 1948.
Who acts: Notable white South African authors, Alan · What happens: include, publish · To what, where: Alan, novel Cry, 1948
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 (Notable white South African authors, Alan), 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 | Notable | notable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 authors | amod |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 authors | amod |
| 3 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 authors | compound |
| 4 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 authors | amod |
| 5 | authors | author | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 include | nsubj |
| 6 | include | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | anti-apartheid | anti-apartheid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 activist | compound |
| 8 | activist | activist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Alan | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Alan | Alan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 include | obj |
| 10 | Paton | Paton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Alan | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 published | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 published | nsubj |
| 13 | published | publish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Alan | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Cry | det |
| 15 | novel | novel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Cry | amod |
| 16 | Cry | Cry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 published | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Country | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Country | det |
| 19 | Beloved | Beloved | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Country | compound |
| 20 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Cry | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1948 | case |
| 22 | 1948 | 1948 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 published | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 include | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | Notable white South African authors | Alan anti-apartheid activist | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alan=Theme | ||||
| 2 | publish | past | Alan anti-apartheid activist | the novel Cry and the Beloved Country | 1948 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Result |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «South Africa», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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