South Africa, sentence 64
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.
King John II renamed the point Cabo da Boa Esperança, or Cape of Good Hope, as it led to the riches of the East Indies.
Who acts: John, return · What happens: rename, lead · To what, where: point
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 (John, return), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 John | nmod:desc |
| 2 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 renamed | nsubj |
| 3 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 2 John | flat |
| 4 | renamed | rename | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 point | det |
| 6 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 renamed | obj |
| 7 | Cabo | Cabo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Boa | compound |
| 8 | da | Da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Boa | compound |
| 9 | Boa | Boa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 point | appos |
| 10 | Esperança | Esperança | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Boa | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Cape | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 Cape | cc |
| 13 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 renamed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Hope | case |
| 15 | Good | Good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Hope | amod |
| 16 | Hope | Hope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Cape | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 led | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 led | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 led | nsubj |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 renamed | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 riches | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 riches | det |
| 23 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 led | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Indies | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Indies | det |
| 26 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Indies | compound |
| 27 | Indies | indy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 riches | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 renamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rename | past | John King | the point | Cape of Good Hope obl | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead | past | return | to the riches of the East Indies | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to rich=Patient |
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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