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title: There are 23 public universities in South Africa: 11 traditional uni… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: There are 23 public universities in South Africa: 11 traditional universities, 6 universities of technology, and 6 comprehensive universities. Who acts: 23 public universities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Africa, sentence 459

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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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There are 23 public universities in South Africa: 11 traditional universities, 6 universities of technology, and 6 comprehensive universities.

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**Who acts:** 23 public universities · **What happens:** be

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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 (23 public universities), 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:459
# text = There are 23 public universities in South Africa: 11 traditional universities, 6 universities of technology, and 6 comprehensive universities.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	universities	university	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	universities	university	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	universities	university	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	technology	technology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	comprehensive	comprehensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	universities	university	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | 23 public universities in South Africa and 11 traditional universities and 6 universities of technology and 6 comprehensive universities |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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