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title: The most southerly portion of this coastal belt is known as the Swar… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: The most southerly portion of this coastal belt is known as the Swartland and Malmesbury Plain, which is an important wheat-growing region, relying on winter rains. Who acts: Swartland. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Africa, sentence 175

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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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The most southerly portion of this coastal belt is known as the Swartland and Malmesbury Plain, which is an important wheat-growing region, relying on winter rains.

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**Who acts:** Swartland · **What happens:** know, grow, be, rely · **To what, where:** southerly portion, important growing region

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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 (Swartland), 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:175
# text = The most southerly portion of this coastal belt is known as the Swartland and Malmesbury Plain, which is an important wheat-growing region, relying on winter rains.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	southerly	southerly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Swartland	Swartland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Malmesbury	Malmesbury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	Plain	Plain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
21	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	relying	rely	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	parataxis	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	rains	rain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive |  | the southerly portion of this coastal belt |  |  |  | as the Swartland and Malmesbury | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as swartland=Attribute |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | wheat *compound* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the Swartland and Malmesbury | a important growing region |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rely** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | on winter rains | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on rain=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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