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title: The Boer Republics of the ZAR and the Orange River Colony were unite… — Pretoria · tree and pragmatics
description: The Boer Republics of the ZAR and the Orange River Colony were united with the Cape Colony and Natal Colony in 1910 to become the Union of South Africa. Who acts: Boer Republics. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pretoria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pretoria, sentence 22

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From Wikipedia, [«Pretoria»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretoria), 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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The Boer Republics of the ZAR and the Orange River Colony were united with the Cape Colony and Natal Colony in 1910 to become the Union of South Africa.

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**Who acts:** Boer Republics · **What happens:** be, become · **To what, where:** Union

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Pretoria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boer Republics), 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:Pretoria:22
# text = The Boer Republics of the ZAR and the Orange River Colony were united with the Cape Colony and Natal Colony in 1910 to become the Union of South Africa.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Boer	Boer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Republics	Republic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ZAR	ZAR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Orange	Orange	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Colony	Colony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	united	united	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Colony	Colony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Natal	Natal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Colony	Colony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1910	1910	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Boer Republics of the ZAR and the Orange River Colony |  |  |  |  | with the Cape Colony and Natal Colony in 1910; united *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | to-infinitive | the Boer Republics of the ZAR and the Orange River Colony *not said here* | the Union of South Africa |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient union=Result |

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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, «Pretoria», 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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