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title: Port infrastructure is managed by the Transnet National Ports Author… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: Port infrastructure is managed by the Transnet National Ports Authority, which plays a central role in supporting domestic logistics and international trade. Who acts: Transnet Ports Authority. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Africa, sentence 381

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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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Port infrastructure is managed by the Transnet National Ports Authority, which plays a central role in supporting domestic logistics and international trade.

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**Who acts:** Transnet Ports Authority · **What happens:** manage, play, support · **To what, where:** Port infrastructure, central role, domestic logistics

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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 (Transnet Ports Authority), 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:381
# text = Port infrastructure is managed by the Transnet National Ports Authority, which plays a central role in supporting domestic logistics and international trade.
1	Port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	infrastructure	infrastructure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	managed	manage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	Transnet	Transnet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Ports	Port	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	compound	_	_
10	Authority	Authority	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	supporting	support	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	logistics	logistic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | present · passive | the Transnet Ports Authority | Port infrastructure |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | present | the Transnet Ports Authority | a central role |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |
| 3 | **support** | gerund | the Transnet Ports Authority *not said here* | domestic logistics and international trade |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer logistic=Stimulus |

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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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