Cape Town, sentence 14
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.
At their most generous and conservative estimates, D. D. Stynder et al. radiocarbon date SAM-AP 4692 to the mid-Holocene at 5448 and 5136 BCE (or 7457 and 7145 cal BP) respectively.
Who acts: et, estimations · What happens: date, estimate · To what, where: most generous estimates
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 (et, estimations), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 7 estimates | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 estimates | nmod:poss |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 estimates | amod |
| 4 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 estimates | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 conservative | cc |
| 6 | conservative | conservative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 generous | conj |
| 7 | estimates | estimate | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Stynder | punct |
| 9 | D. | D. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Stynder | compound |
| 10 | D. | D. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Stynder | compound |
| 11 | Stynder | Stynder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 estimates | nmod |
| 12 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 date | nsubj |
| 13 | al. | al. | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 et | flat:foreign |
| 14 | radiocarbon | radiocarbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 date | compound |
| 15 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Stynder | parataxis |
| 16 | SAM | SAM | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 AP | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 AP | punct |
| 18 | AP | AP | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 date | conj |
| 19 | 4692 | 4692 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 AP | flat |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 mid-Holocene | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mid-Holocene | det |
| 22 | mid-Holocene | mid-holocene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 AP | nmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 5448 | case |
| 24 | 5448 | 5448 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 mid-Holocene | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 5136 | cc |
| 26 | 5136 | 5136 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 5448 | conj |
| 27 | BCE | BCE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 mid-Holocene | nmod |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 7457 | punct |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 7457 | cc |
| 30 | 7457 | 7457 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 BCE | appos |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 7145 | cc |
| 32 | 7145 | 7145 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 7457 | conj |
| 33 | cal | cal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 BP | amod |
| 34 | BP | BP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 7457 | appos |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 7457 | punct |
| 36 | respectively | respectively | ADV | _ | 11 Stynder | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 estimates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | date | et | SAM AP to the mid-Holocene at 5448 BCE conj | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | estimate | estimations = estimation | nom estimate «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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