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title: These people, who are a physically distinct population from the Bant… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: These people, who are a physically distinct population from the Bantu people who make up most of the Black Africans in South Africa, have their own cultural identity based on their hunter-gatherer societies. Who acts: people, Bantu people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency
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# South Africa, sentence 431

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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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These people, who are a physically distinct population from the Bantu people who make up most of the Black Africans in South Africa, have their own cultural identity based on their hunter-gatherer societies.

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**Who acts:** people, Bantu people · **What happens:** be, make up, have, base · **To what, where:** distinct population, most, South Africa, own cultural identity, gatherer societies

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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 (people, Bantu people), 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:431
# text = These people, who are a physically distinct population from the Bantu people who make up most of the Black Africans in South Africa, have their own cultural identity based on their hunter-gatherer societies.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	physically	physically	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Bantu	Bantu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Black	Black	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Africans	African	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
34	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	gatherer	gatherer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	societies	society	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this people | a distinct population |  |  |  | from the Bantu people | tree rules |
| 2 | **make up** | present | the Bantu people | most of the Black Africans |  | South Africa |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme most=Pivot |
| 3 | **have** | present | this people | people's own cultural identity |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=Patient |
| 4 | **base** | participle |  | people's own cultural identity *not said here* |  | people's gatherer societies |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on society=Source |

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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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