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title: With more than 22,000 different vascular plants, or about 9% of all… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: With more than 22,000 different vascular plants, or about 9% of all the known species of plants on Earth, South Africa is particularly rich in plant diversity. Who acts: South Africa. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Africa, sentence 217

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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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With more than 22,000 different vascular plants, or about 9% of all the known species of plants on Earth, South Africa is particularly rich in plant diversity.

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**Who acts:** South Africa · **What happens:** know, be · **To what, where:** plant diversity

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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:217
# text = With more than 22,000 different vascular plants, or about 9% of all the known species of plants on Earth, South Africa is particularly rich in plant diversity.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	4	advmod	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	22,000	22,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	vascular	vascular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	diversity	diversity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | South Africa |  |  | plant diversity |  | particularly, rich *property* | tree rules |

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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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