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title: The Port of Durban is the busiest container port in sub-Saharan Afri… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: The Port of Durban is the busiest container port in sub-Saharan Africa and the fourth-largest in the Southern Hemisphere, while the Port of Richards Bay is one of the world's largest bulk export facilities. Who acts: Port. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tree and pragmat
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# South Africa, sentence 380

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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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The Port of Durban is the busiest container port in sub-Saharan Africa and the fourth-largest in the Southern Hemisphere, while the Port of Richards Bay is one of the world's largest bulk export facilities.

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**Who acts:** Port · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** busiest container port, sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Hemisphere, one

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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 (Port), 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:380
# text = The Port of Durban is the busiest container port in sub-Saharan Africa and the fourth-largest in the Southern Hemisphere, while the Port of Richards Bay is one of the world's largest bulk export facilities.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Durban	Durban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	busiest	busy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
8	container	container	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	sub-Saharan	sub-Saharan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	21	compound	_	_
21	Hemisphere	Hemisphere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Richards	Richards	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
36	bulk	bulk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	export	export	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	facilities	facility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Port of Durban | the busiest container port |  | sub-Saharan Africa |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the Port of Durban *not said here* |  |  | the Southern Hemisphere |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the Port of Richards Bay | one |  |  |  | of the world's largest export facilities | 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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