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title: It was imported before the codification of European law into the Nap… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: It was imported before the codification of European law into the Napoleonic Code and is comparable in many ways to Scots law. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Africa, sentence 261

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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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It was imported before the codification of European law into the Napoleonic Code and is comparable in many ways to Scots law.

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**What happens:** import, be, codify · **To what, where:** Company, many ways, European law, Napoleonic Code

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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: 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:261
# text = It was imported before the codification of European law into the Napoleonic Code and is comparable in many ways to Scots law.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	imported	import	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	codification	codification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Napoleonic	Napoleonic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Code	Code	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	comparable	comparable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Scots	Scot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **import** | past · passive |  | Company |  |  | before the codification of European law into the Napoleonic Code |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | many ways to Scots and law |  | comparable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **codify** |  |  | European law |  | the Napoleonic Code |  |  | nom codification «act transitive»: of=patient into=place |

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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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