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title: Eight years after the end of the Second Boer War, and after four yea… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: Eight years after the end of the Second Boer War, and after four years of negotiation, the South Africa Act 1909 created the Union of South Africa on 31 May 1910, granting the country nominal independence. Who acts: Africa Act. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tree and pr
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# South Africa, sentence 117

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From Wikipedia, [«South Africa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa), 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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Eight years after the end of the Second Boer War, and after four years of negotiation, the South Africa Act 1909 created the Union of South Africa on 31 May 1910, granting the country nominal independence.

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**Who acts:** Africa Act · **What happens:** create, grant · **To what, where:** Union, 31, nominal independence

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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 (Africa Act), 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:South_Africa:117
# text = Eight years after the end of the Second Boer War, and after four years of negotiation, the South Africa Act 1909 created the Union of South Africa on 31 May 1910, granting the country nominal independence.
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
9	Boer	Boer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	negotiation	negotiation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	1909	1909	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	_
24	created	create	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
32	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:unmarked	_	_
33	1910	1910	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	granting	grant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	nominal	nominal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **create** | past | the Africa Act | the Union of South Africa |  | 31  May | year |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=Result |
| 2 | **grant** | gerund | the Africa Act *not said here* | the nominal independence |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent independence=Theme |

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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, «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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