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title: In the 2023 International SWAT Competition, the STF ranked 9th out o… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 2023 International SWAT Competition, the STF ranked 9th out of 55 international law enforcement teams, making it the highest-ranked African police unit and one of the world's best. Who acts: STF. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Africa, sentence 300

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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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In the 2023 International SWAT Competition, the STF ranked 9th out of 55 international law enforcement teams, making it the highest-ranked African police unit and one of the world's best.

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**Who acts:** STF · **What happens:** rank, make · **To what, where:** 9th, International SWAT Competition, STF

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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 (STF), 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:300
# text = In the 2023 International SWAT Competition, the STF ranked 9th out of 55 international law enforcement teams, making it the highest-ranked African police unit and one of the world's best.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	International	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	SWAT	swat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Competition	competition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	STF	STF	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ranked	rank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	9th	9th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	10	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	55	55	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
15	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	enforcement	enforcement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
23	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	ranked	rank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
26	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	compound	_	_
28	unit	unit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rank** | past | the STF | 9th |  | the International SWAT Competition  2023 |  | out 55 international enforcement teams | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent 9th=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | the STF *not said here* | STF |  |  |  | the highest ranked police unit *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary unit=Product |
| 3 | **rank** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |

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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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