South Africa, sentence 513
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.
She reported on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the South African Broadcasting Corporation, and her best-known book is Country of My Skull (1998).
Who acts: Antjie, best known book · What happens: report, know, be · To what, where: Truth, Country
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 (Antjie, best known book), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reported | nsubj |
| 2 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 Truth | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Truth | det |
| 5 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reported | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Commission | cc |
| 7 | Reconciliation | Reconciliation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Commission | compound |
| 8 | Commission | Commission | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Truth | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Corporation | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Corporation | det |
| 11 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Broadcasting | compound |
| 12 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Broadcasting | amod |
| 13 | Broadcasting | Broadcasting | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Corporation | compound |
| 14 | Corporation | Corporation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Commission | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Country | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Country | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 book | nmod:poss |
| 18 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 book | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 best | punct |
| 20 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 book | amod |
| 21 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Country | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Country | cop |
| 23 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reported | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Skull | case |
| 25 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Skull | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Skull | Skull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Country | nmod |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 1998 | punct |
| 28 | 1998 | 1998 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 Country | nmod |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 1998 | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past | Antjie | the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the Broadcasting Corporation | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | Antjie's best known book | Country | of My Skull; 1998 nmod | 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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