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title: This is hotter, drier and less intensely cultivated than the Highvel… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: This is hotter, drier and less intensely cultivated than the Highveld above the escarpment. Who acts: This. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Africa, sentence 164

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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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This is hotter, drier and less intensely cultivated than the Highveld above the escarpment.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, cultivate · **To what, where:** escarpment

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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 (This), 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:164
# text = This is hotter, drier and less intensely cultivated than the Highveld above the escarpment.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	drier	dry	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
8	intensely	intensely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Highveld	Highveld	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	above	above	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	escarpment	escarpment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | This |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cultivate** | participle | This *not said here* |  |  | the escarpment |  | than the Highveld; intensely, less *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «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, «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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