South Africa, sentence 528
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.
The most notable is Nando's, founded in Johannesburg in 1987, which specialises in flame-grilled peri-peri chicken and operates more than 1,250 outlets in over 23 countries.
Who acts: notable, Nando · What happens: be, found, specialis, grill, operate · To what, where: Nando, Johannesburg, 1,250 outlets, 23 countries
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, Nando), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 notable | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 notable | advmod |
| 3 | notable | notable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Nando | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Nando | cop |
| 5 | Nando | Nando | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Nando | case |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 founded | punct |
| 8 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Nando | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Johannesburg | case |
| 10 | Johannesburg | Johannesburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 founded | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1987 | case |
| 12 | 1987 | 1987 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 founded | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 specialises | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 specialises | nsubj |
| 15 | specialises | specialis | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Nando | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 chicken | case |
| 17 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grilled | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 flame | punct |
| 19 | grilled | grill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 chicken | amod |
| 20 | peri | peri | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 peri | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 peri | punct |
| 22 | peri | peri | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chicken | compound |
| 23 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 specialises | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 operates | cc |
| 25 | operates | operate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 specialises | conj |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 28 1,250 | advmod |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 more | fixed |
| 28 | 1,250 | 1,250 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 outlets | nummod |
| 29 | outlets | outlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 operates | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 countries | case |
| 31 | over | over | ADV | _ | 32 23 | advmod |
| 32 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 countries | nummod |
| 33 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 operates | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Nando | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the notable | 's Nando | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | found | participle | Nando not said here | Johannesburg | in 1987 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | specialis | present | Nando | in grilled peri chicken | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grill | participle | flame compound | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | operate | present | Nando not said here | 1,250 outlets | 23 countries | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme outlet=Attribute |
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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