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title: In 2015, the Oliver Hermanus film The Endless River became the first… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2015, the Oliver Hermanus film The Endless River became the first South African film selected for the Venice Film Festival. Who acts: Hermanus film. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Africa, sentence 503

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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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In 2015, the Oliver Hermanus film The Endless River became the first South African film selected for the Venice Film Festival.

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**Who acts:** Hermanus film · **What happens:** become, select · **To what, where:** first South African film, 2015

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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 (Hermanus film), 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:503
# text = In 2015, the Oliver Hermanus film The Endless River became the first South African film selected for the Venice Film Festival.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Hermanus	Hermanus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Endless	Endless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
14	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
17	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	Film	Film	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Festival	Festival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the Hermanus film | the first South African film |  |  |  | in 2015 *result*; the Endless River *nsubj* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2015=Result |
| 2 | **select** | participle |  | the first South African film *not said here* |  |  |  | for the Venice Film Festival | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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