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title: Pressured by other Commonwealth of Nations countries, South Africa w… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: Pressured by other Commonwealth of Nations countries, South Africa withdrew from the organisation in 1961. Who acts: South Africa. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Africa, sentence 133

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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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Pressured by other Commonwealth of Nations countries, South Africa withdrew from the organisation in 1961.

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**Who acts:** South Africa · **What happens:** pressure, withdraw · **To what, where:** other Commonwealth, organisation

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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 (South Africa), 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:133
# text = Pressured by other Commonwealth of Nations countries, South Africa withdrew from the organisation in 1961.
1	Pressured	pressure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl:agent	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	organisation	organisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1961	1961	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pressure** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | other Commonwealth of Nations countries *obl:agent* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **withdraw** | past | South Africa | other Commonwealth of Nations countries *not said here* |  | the organisation |  | in 1961 | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent commonwealth=Theme from organisation=Initial\_Location |

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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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