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title: While South Africa has a great wealth of flowering plants, only 1% o… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: While South Africa has a great wealth of flowering plants, only 1% of the land is forest, almost exclusively in the humid coastal plain of KwaZulu-Natal, where there are also areas of Southern Africa mangroves in river mouths. Who acts: South Africa, areas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» w
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# South Africa, sentence 227

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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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While South Africa has a great wealth of flowering plants, only 1% of the land is forest, almost exclusively in the humid coastal plain of KwaZulu-Natal, where there are also areas of Southern Africa mangroves in river mouths.

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**Who acts:** South Africa, areas · **What happens:** have, flower, be · **To what, where:** great wealth, % forest

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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, areas), 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:227
# text = While South Africa has a great wealth of flowering plants, only 1% of the land is forest, almost exclusively in the humid coastal plain of KwaZulu-Natal, where there are also areas of Southern Africa mangroves in river mouths.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	flowering	flower	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	humid	humid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	KwaZulu	KwaZulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Natal	Natal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
34	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	35	expl	_	_
35	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
36	also	also	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	40	flat	_	_
40	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	mangroves	mangrove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | South Africa | a great wealth of flowering plants |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Patient |
| 2 | **flower** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | % forest |  |  |  | the humid coastal plain of KwaZulu and Natal *appos* | tree rules |
| 4 | **does** | present | areas of Africa mangroves in river mouths |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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