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title: Pienaar is the only Afrikaner ordained in the highly selective Tibet… — Pretoria · tree and pragmatics
description: Pienaar is the only Afrikaner ordained in the highly selective Tibetan Tantric Buddhist community in Bylakuppe, in southern India. Who acts: Pienaar. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pretoria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pretoria, sentence 281

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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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Pienaar is the only Afrikaner ordained in the highly selective Tibetan Tantric Buddhist community in Bylakuppe, in southern India.

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**Who acts:** Pienaar · **What happens:** be, ordain · **To what, where:** only Afrikaner, southern India, selective Buddhist community

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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 (Pienaar), 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:281
# text = Pienaar is the only Afrikaner ordained in the highly selective Tibetan Tantric Buddhist community in Bylakuppe, in southern India.
1	Pienaar	Pienaar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Afrikaner	afrikaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	ordained	ordain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
9	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	selective	selective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	Tibetan	Tibetan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Tantric	Tantric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Buddhist	Buddhist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Bylakuppe	Bylakuppe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Pienaar | the only Afrikaner |  | southern India |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ordain** | participle |  | the only Afrikaner *not said here* |  | the selective Buddhist community |  | in Bylakuppe | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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