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title: Plantations of imported tree species are predominant, particularly t… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: Plantations of imported tree species are predominant, particularly the non-native eucalyptus and pine. Who acts: Plantations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Africa, sentence 229

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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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Plantations of imported tree species are predominant, particularly the non-native eucalyptus and pine.

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**Who acts:** Plantations · **What happens:** import, be

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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 (Plantations), 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:229
# text = Plantations of imported tree species are predominant, particularly the non-native eucalyptus and pine.
1	Plantations	plantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	imported	import	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	predominant	predominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	non-native	non-native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	eucalyptus	eucalyptus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **import** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Plantations of imported tree species |  |  |  |  | the non-native eucalyptus and pine *parataxis*; predominant *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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