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title: Notable white South African authors include anti-apartheid activist… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: Notable white South African authors include anti-apartheid activist Alan Paton, who published the novel Cry, the Beloved Country in 1948. Who acts: Notable white South African authors, Alan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Africa, sentence 507

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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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Notable white South African authors include anti-apartheid activist Alan Paton, who published the novel Cry, the Beloved Country in 1948.

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**Who acts:** Notable white South African authors, Alan · **What happens:** include, publish · **To what, where:** Alan, novel Cry, 1948

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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 (Notable white South African authors, Alan), 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:507
# text = Notable white South African authors include anti-apartheid activist Alan Paton, who published the novel Cry, the Beloved Country in 1948.
1	Notable	notable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	authors	author	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	include	include	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	anti-apartheid	anti-apartheid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	activist	activist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Alan	Alan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	Paton	Paton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	published	publish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	novel	novel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Cry	Cry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1948	1948	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | present | Notable white South African authors | Alan  anti-apartheid activist |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alan=Theme |
| 2 | **publish** | past | Alan  anti-apartheid activist | the novel Cry and the Beloved Country |  | 1948 |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Result |

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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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