South Africa, sentence 524
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.
Common braai staples include boerewors (spiced sausage), lamb chops, steak, pap (maize porridge) and chakalaka (spicy relish).
Who acts: Common staples, chakalaka · What happens: include, spice, relish · To what, where: boerewors
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 (Common staples, chakalaka), 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 | Common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 staples | amod |
| 2 | braai | braai | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 staples | nmod |
| 3 | staples | staple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 include | nsubj |
| 4 | include | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | boerewors | boerewor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 include | obj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 sausage | punct |
| 7 | spiced | spice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sausage | amod |
| 8 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boerewors | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 sausage | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 chops | punct |
| 11 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chops | compound |
| 12 | chops | chop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sausage | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 steak | punct |
| 14 | steak | steak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sausage | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pap | punct |
| 16 | pap | pap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sausage | conj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 porridge | punct |
| 18 | maize | maize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 porridge | compound |
| 19 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pap | appos |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 porridge | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 relish | cc |
| 22 | chakalaka | chakalaka | X | Foreign=Yes | 25 relish | nsubj |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 relish | punct |
| 24 | spicy | spicy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 relish | amod |
| 25 | relish | relish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sausage | conj |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 sausage | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 include | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | Common staples braai | boerewors | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boerewor=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spice | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | relish | chakalaka | 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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