Cape Town, sentence 143
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 three main rock formations are the late-Precambrian Malmesbury group (sedimentary and metamorphic rock), the Cape Granite suit, comprising the huge Peninsula, Kuilsrivier-Helderberg, and Stellenbosch batholiths, that were intruded into the Malmesbury Group about 630 million years ago, and the Table Mountain group sandstones that were deposited on the eroded surface of the granite and Malmesbury series basement about 450 million years ago.
Who acts: three main rock formations, Malmesbury · What happens: be, comprise, stellenbosch, intrude, deposit, erode · To what, where: late Malmesbury group, huge Peninsula, batholiths, Malmesbury Group, Mountain group sandstones, eroded surface
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 (three main rock formations, Malmesbury), 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 | 5 formations | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 formations | nummod |
| 3 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 formations | amod |
| 4 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 formations | compound |
| 5 | formations | formation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 group | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 group | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 group | det |
| 8 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 group | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 late | punct |
| 10 | Precambrian | Precambrian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Malmesbury | compound |
| 11 | Malmesbury | Malmesbury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 group | compound |
| 12 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 sedimentary | punct |
| 14 | sedimentary | sedimentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 group | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rock | cc |
| 16 | metamorphic | metamorphic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rock | amod |
| 17 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sedimentary | conj |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 sedimentary | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 suit | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 suit | det |
| 21 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Granite | compound |
| 22 | Granite | Granite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 suit | compound |
| 23 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 group | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 comprising | punct |
| 25 | comprising | comprise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 group | appos |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Peninsula | det |
| 27 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Peninsula | amod |
| 28 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 comprising | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Kuilsrivier | punct |
| 30 | Kuilsrivier | Kuilsrivier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Peninsula | appos |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Helderberg | punct |
| 32 | Helderberg | Helderberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Kuilsrivier | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Stellenbosch | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Stellenbosch | cc |
| 35 | Stellenbosch | stellenbosch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 comprising | conj |
| 36 | batholiths | batholith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 Stellenbosch | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 intruded | punct |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 intruded | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 intruded | aux:pass |
| 40 | intruded | intrude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 batholiths | acl:relcl |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 Group | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Group | det |
| 43 | Malmesbury | Malmesbury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Group | compound |
| 44 | Group | Group | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 intruded | obl |
| 45 | about | about | ADV | _ | 47 million | advmod |
| 46 | 630 | 630 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 47 million | compound |
| 47 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 years | nummod |
| 48 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 49 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 40 intruded | advmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 sandstones | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 sandstones | cc |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 sandstones | det |
| 53 | Table | Table | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Mountain | compound |
| 54 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 sandstones | compound |
| 55 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 sandstones | compound |
| 56 | sandstones | sandstone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 group | appos |
| 57 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 59 deposited | nsubj |
| 58 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 59 deposited | aux:pass |
| 59 | deposited | deposit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 56 sandstones | acl:relcl |
| 60 | on | on | ADP | _ | 63 surface | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 surface | det |
| 62 | eroded | erode | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 63 surface | amod |
| 63 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 deposited | obl |
| 64 | of | of | ADP | _ | 66 granite | case |
| 65 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 66 granite | det |
| 66 | granite | granite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 surface | nmod |
| 67 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 69 series | cc |
| 68 | Malmesbury | Malmesbury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 69 series | nsubj |
| 69 | series | sery | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 59 deposited | conj |
| 70 | basement | basement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 series | obj |
| 71 | about | about | ADV | _ | 73 million | advmod |
| 72 | 450 | 450 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 73 million | compound |
| 73 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 74 years | nummod |
| 74 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 75 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 75 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 69 series | advmod |
| 76 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 group | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the three main rock formations | the late Malmesbury group and the Granite suit | the Granite suit conj; the Mountain group sandstones appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | comprise | gerund | the huge Peninsula | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme peninsula=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | stellenbosch | infinitive | batholiths | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | intrude | past · passive | batholiths | the Malmesbury Group | ago property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | deposit | past · passive | the Mountain group sandstones | the eroded surface of the granite | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on surface=Destination | ||||
| 6 | erode | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | sery | present | Malmesbury | basement | ago property | tree rules |
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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