Cape Town, sentence 1014
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.
The closing of the road to the newly founded Zaire caused the city to be dropped from the traject.
Who acts: closing, Zaire · What happens: found, cause, drop, close · To what, where: city, traject, road
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 (closing, Zaire), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 closing | det |
| 2 | closing | closing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 founded | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 road | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 road | det |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 closing | nmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 founded | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 founded | det |
| 8 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 9 founded | advmod |
| 9 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Zaire | Zaire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 caused | nsubj |
| 11 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 founded | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 city | det |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caused | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 dropped | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dropped | aux:pass |
| 16 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 city | acl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 traject | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 traject | det |
| 19 | traject | traject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dropped | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past | the closing of the road | newly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cause | past | Zaire | the city | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition city=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drop | to-infinitive · passive | Zaire not said here | the city not said here | the traject | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: from traject=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | close | the road | nom closing «act transitive»: of=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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