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title: It is the world's largest producer of mohair and ostrich meat, while… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: It is the world's largest producer of mohair and ostrich meat, while ranking among the leading global producers of citrus fruit, grapes, wine, maize, wool, sugar, deciduous fruit, and livestock products. Who acts: sector, largest producer. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency
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# South Africa, sentence 342

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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 is the world's largest producer of mohair and ostrich meat, while ranking among the leading global producers of citrus fruit, grapes, wine, maize, wool, sugar, deciduous fruit, and livestock products.

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**Who acts:** sector, largest producer · **What happens:** be, rank, lead · **To what, where:** largest producer

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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 (sector, largest producer), 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:342
# text = It is the world's largest producer of mohair and ostrich meat, while ranking among the leading global producers of citrus fruit, grapes, wine, maize, wool, sugar, deciduous fruit, and livestock products.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	producer	producer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mohair	mohair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	ranking	rank	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
19	global	global	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	producers	producer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	citrus	citrus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	maize	maize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	deciduous	deciduous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	livestock	livestock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	products	product	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | sector | the world's largest producer and livestock products |  |  |  | of mohair and ostrich meat; the world *nmod:poss*; livestock products *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rank** | gerund | the world's largest producer and livestock products *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among the leading global producers of citrus fruit and grapes and wine and maize and wool and sugar and deciduous fruit | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |

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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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