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title: By 1250, the capital of the Mapungubwe Kingdom had a population of 5… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: By 1250, the capital of the Mapungubwe Kingdom had a population of 5,000 and the state covered 30,000 km2 (11,500 square miles), growing wealthy through the Indian Ocean trade. Who acts: capital, state, population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Africa, sentence 49

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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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By 1250, the capital of the Mapungubwe Kingdom had a population of 5,000 and the state covered 30,000 km2 (11,500 square miles), growing wealthy through the Indian Ocean trade.

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**Who acts:** capital, state, population · **What happens:** have, cover, grow · **To what, where:** population, 30,000 km2, Indian Ocean trade

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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 (capital, state, population), 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:49
# text = By 1250, the capital of the Mapungubwe Kingdom had a population of 5,000 and the state covered 30,000 km2 (11,500 square miles), growing wealthy through the Indian Ocean trade.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1250	1250	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Mapungubwe	Mapungubwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	5,000	5000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	30,000	30,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	_
20	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	11,500	11,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
28	wealthy	wealthy	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the capital of the Mapungubwe Kingdom | a population of 5,000 and the state |  |  |  | by 1250 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient |
| 2 | **cover** | participle | the state *not said here* | 30,000 km2 |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | a population of 5,000 and the state *not said here* |  |  | the Indian Ocean trade |  | wealthy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through trade=Location |

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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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