Cape Town, sentence 149
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 this time the drainage outlets lay between Rocky Bank Cape Point to the west, and between Rocky Bank and Hangklip Ridge to the east, with the watershed roughly along the line of the contact zone east of Seal Island and Whittle Rock.
Who acts: drainage outlets · What happens: lay
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 (drainage outlets), 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 | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 outlets | det |
| 5 | drainage | drainage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 outlets | compound |
| 6 | outlets | outlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 7 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 Bank | case |
| 9 | Rocky | Rocky | PROPN | _ | 10 Bank | compound |
| 10 | Bank | Bank | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 11 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Point | compound |
| 12 | Point | Point | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Bank | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 west | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 west | det |
| 15 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Bank | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Bank | cc |
| 18 | between | between | ADP | _ | 20 Bank | case |
| 19 | Rocky | Rocky | PROPN | _ | 20 Bank | compound |
| 20 | Bank | Bank | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Ridge | cc |
| 22 | Hangklip | Hangklip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Ridge | compound |
| 23 | Ridge | Ridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Bank | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 east | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 east | det |
| 26 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 watershed | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 watershed | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 watershed | det |
| 30 | watershed | watershed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | parataxis |
| 31 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 34 line | advmod |
| 32 | along | along | ADP | _ | 34 line | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 line | det |
| 34 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 watershed | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 east | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 east | det |
| 37 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 east | compound |
| 38 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 east | compound |
| 39 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 line | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Island | case |
| 41 | Seal | Seal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Island | compound |
| 42 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 east | nmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 Rock | cc |
| 44 | Whittle | Whittle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Rock | compound |
| 45 | Rock | Rock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Island | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | the drainage outlets | time | between Rocky Bank and Cape Point; to the west; between Rocky Bank and Hangklip Ridge; to the east; the watershed along the line of the contact zone east of Seal Island and Whittle Rock parataxis | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between bank=Destination |
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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