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title: Bloemfontein is located in central South Africa on the southern edge… — Bloemfontein · tree and pragmatics
description: Bloemfontein is located in central South Africa on the southern edge of the Highveld at an elevation of 1400 m, bordering on the semi-arid region of the Karoo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bloemfontein» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bloemfontein, sentence 78

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From Wikipedia, [«Bloemfontein»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloemfontein), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Bloemfontein is located in central South Africa on the southern edge of the Highveld at an elevation of 1400 m, bordering on the semi-arid region of the Karoo.

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**What happens:** locate, border, elevate · **To what, where:** Bloemfontein, central South Africa, semi-arid region, 1400 m

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bloemfontein». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Bloemfontein:78
# text = Bloemfontein is located in central South Africa on the southern edge of the Highveld at an elevation of 1400 m, bordering on the semi-arid region of the Karoo.
1	Bloemfontein	Bloemfontein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Highveld	Highveld	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	elevation	elevation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	1400	1400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	bordering	border	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	semi-arid	semi-arid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Karoo	Karoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | present · passive |  | Bloemfontein |  | central South Africa |  | on the southern edge of the Highveld at a elevation of 1400 m | tree rules |
| 2 | **border** | gerund |  |  |  | the semi-arid region of the Karoo |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **elevate** |  |  | 1400 m |  |  |  |  | nom elevation «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Bloemfontein», 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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