Cape Town, sentence 1006
From Wikipedia, «Cape Town», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
False Bay is open to the south, and the prevailing open ocean swell arrives from the southwest, so the exposure varies considerably around the coastline.
Who acts: False Bay, open ocean swell, exposure · What happens: be, prevail, swell, arrive, vary · To what, where: southwest, coastline
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cape Town». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (False Bay, open ocean swell, exposure), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | False | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Bay | amod |
| 2 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 open | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | cop |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 south | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 south | det |
| 7 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 open | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 arrives | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 arrives | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 swell | det |
| 11 | prevailing | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 swell | nsubj |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 swell | amod |
| 13 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swell | compound |
| 14 | swell | swell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arrives | nsubj |
| 15 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 southwest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 southwest | det |
| 18 | southwest | southwest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arrives | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 varies | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 varies | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 exposure | det |
| 22 | exposure | exposure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 varies | nsubj |
| 23 | varies | vary | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | conj |
| 24 | considerably | considerably | ADV | _ | 23 varies | advmod |
| 25 | around | around | ADP | _ | 27 coastline | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 coastline | det |
| 27 | coastline | coastline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 varies | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | False Bay | to the south; open property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prevail | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | swell | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | arrive | present | the open ocean swell | the southwest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from southwest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | vary | present | the exposure | the coastline | considerably property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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