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title: The most notable is Nando's, founded in Johannesburg in 1987, which… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: The most notable is Nando's, founded in Johannesburg in 1987, which specialises in flame-grilled peri-peri chicken and operates more than 1,250 outlets in over 23 countries. Who acts: notable, Nando. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Africa, sentence 528

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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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The most notable is Nando's, founded in Johannesburg in 1987, which specialises in flame-grilled peri-peri chicken and operates more than 1,250 outlets in over 23 countries.

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**Who acts:** notable, Nando · **What happens:** be, found, specialis, grill, operate · **To what, where:** Nando, Johannesburg, 1,250 outlets, 23 countries

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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, Nando), 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:528
# text = The most notable is Nando's, founded in Johannesburg in 1987, which specialises in flame-grilled peri-peri chicken and operates more than 1,250 outlets in over 23 countries.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	notable	notable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Nando	Nando	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Johannesburg	Johannesburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1987	1987	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	specialises	specialis	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
17	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	grilled	grill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
20	peri	peri	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	peri	peri	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	operates	operate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	28	advmod	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	1,250	1,250	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	outlets	outlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	over	over	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the notable |  |  |  |  | 's Nando | tree rules |
| 2 | **found** | participle |  | Nando *not said here* |  | Johannesburg |  | in 1987 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **specialis** | present | Nando |  |  |  |  | in grilled peri chicken | tree rules |
| 4 | **grill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | flame *compound* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **operate** | present | Nando *not said here* | 1,250 outlets |  | 23 countries |  |  | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme outlet=Attribute |

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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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