diff --git a/rdfproxy/utils/sparql_utils.py b/rdfproxy/utils/sparql_utils.py
index 0fbf613..7090e85 100644
--- a/rdfproxy/utils/sparql_utils.py
+++ b/rdfproxy/utils/sparql_utils.py
@@ -3,17 +3,67 @@
 from collections.abc import Iterator
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 from functools import partial
+from itertools import chain
 import re
 from textwrap import indent
-from typing import cast
+from typing import cast, overload
 
 from SPARQLWrapper import QueryResult, SPARQLWrapper
+from rdflib import Variable
+from rdflib.plugins.sparql.parser import parseQuery
+from rdflib.plugins.sparql.parserutils import CompValue, ParseResults
 from rdfproxy.utils._types import ItemsQueryConstructor, _TModelInstance
 
 
-def construct_ungrouped_pagination_query(query: str, limit: int, offset: int) -> str:
+@overload
+def _compvalue_to_dict(comp_value: dict | CompValue) -> dict: ...
+
+
+@overload
+def _compvalue_to_dict(comp_value: list | ParseResults) -> list: ...
+
+
+def _compvalue_to_dict(comp_value: CompValue):
+    """Convert a CompValue parsing object into a Python dict/list representation."""
+    if isinstance(comp_value, dict):
+        return {key: _compvalue_to_dict(value) for key, value in comp_value.items()}
+    elif isinstance(comp_value, list | ParseResults):
+        return [_compvalue_to_dict(item) for item in comp_value]
+    else:
+        return comp_value
+
+
+def get_query_projection(query: str) -> list[str]:
+    """Parse a SPARQL SELECT query and extract the ordered bindings projection.
+
+    The first case handles explicit/literal binding projections.
+    The second case handles implicit/* binding projections.
+    The third case handles implicit/* binding projections with VALUES.
+    """
+    _parse_result: CompValue = parseQuery(query)[1]
+    parsed_query: dict = _compvalue_to_dict(_parse_result)
+
+    match parsed_query:
+        case {"projection": projection}:
+            return [i["var"] for i in projection]
+        case {"where": {"part": [{"triples": triples}]}}:
+            projection = dict.fromkeys(
+                i for i in chain.from_iterable(triples) if isinstance(i, Variable)
+            )
+            return list(projection)
+        case {"where": {"part": [{"var": var}]}}:
+            return var
+        case _:
+            raise Exception("Unable to obtain query projection.")
+
+
+def construct_ungrouped_pagination_query(
+    query: str, limit: int, offset: int, order_by: str | None = None
+) -> str:
     """Construct an ungrouped pagination query."""
-    return f"{query} limit {limit} offset {offset}"
+    order_by = get_query_projection(query)[0] if order_by is None else order_by
+
+    return f"{query} order by ?{order_by} limit {limit} offset {offset}"
 
 
 def replace_query_select_clause(query: str, repl: str) -> str: