Cape Town, sentence 114
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The sedimentary rocks of the Cape Supergroup, of which parts of the Graafwater and Peninsula Formations remain, were uplifted between 280 and 21S million years ago, and were largely eroded away during the Mesozoic.
Who acts: Formations · What happens: remain, uplift, erode away · To what, where: Graafwater, sedimentary rocks
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 (Formations), 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 | 3 rocks | det |
| 2 | sedimentary | sedimentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rocks | amod |
| 3 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 uplifted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Supergroup | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Supergroup | det |
| 6 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Supergroup | compound |
| 7 | Supergroup | supergroup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rocks | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 parts | punct |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 parts | case |
| 10 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 11 parts | det |
| 11 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rocks | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Graafwater | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Graafwater | det |
| 14 | Graafwater | Graafwater | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 parts | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Peninsula | cc |
| 16 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Graafwater | conj |
| 17 | Formations | formation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 remain | nsubj |
| 18 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Graafwater | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rocks | punct |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 uplifted | aux:pass |
| 21 | uplifted | uplift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | between | between | ADP | _ | 23 280 | case |
| 23 | 280 | 280 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 uplifted | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 21S | cc |
| 25 | 21S | 21 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 21 uplifted | conj |
| 26 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 years | nummod |
| 27 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 21 uplifted | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 eroded | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 eroded | cc |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 eroded | aux:pass |
| 32 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 33 eroded | advmod |
| 33 | eroded | erode | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 uplifted | conj |
| 34 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 eroded | advmod |
| 35 | during | during | ADP | _ | 37 Mesozoic | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Mesozoic | det |
| 37 | Mesozoic | Mesozoic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 eroded | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 uplifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | Formations | the Graafwater and Peninsula not said here | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme graafwater=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | uplift | past · passive | the sedimentary rocks of the Cape Supergroup and which parts of the Graafwater and Peninsula | between 280; 21S conj; ago property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | erode away | past · passive | during the Mesozoic | away, largely property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V» |
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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