Cape Town, sentence 117
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.
There are two internationally notable landmarks, Table Mountain and Cape Point, at opposite ends of the Peninsula Mountain Chain, with the Cape Flats and False Bay to the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.
Who acts: two notable landmarks · What happens: be
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 (two notable landmarks), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 landmarks | nummod |
| 4 | internationally | internationally | ADV | _ | 5 notable | advmod |
| 5 | notable | notable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 landmarks | amod |
| 6 | landmarks | landmark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mountain | punct |
| 8 | Table | Table | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mountain | compound |
| 9 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 landmarks | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Point | cc |
| 11 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Point | compound |
| 12 | Point | Point | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mountain | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ends | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 ends | case |
| 15 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ends | amod |
| 16 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 landmarks | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Chain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Chain | det |
| 19 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Mountain | compound |
| 20 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Chain | compound |
| 21 | Chain | Chain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 ends | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Flats | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 Flats | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Flats | det |
| 25 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Flats | compound |
| 26 | Flats | Flat | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 landmarks | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Bay | cc |
| 28 | False | False | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Bay | compound |
| 29 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Flats | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 east | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 east | det |
| 32 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 are | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Ocean | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Ocean | det |
| 35 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Ocean | compound |
| 36 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 east | conj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 west | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 west | det |
| 39 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 are | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | two notable landmarks and opposite ends of the Mountain Chain and the Cape Flats and False Bay | there | to the east and the Atlantic Ocean; to the west | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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