Cape Town, sentence 151
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.
Winter, which lasts from June to September, may see large cold fronts entering for limited periods from the Atlantic Ocean with significant precipitation and strong north-westerly winds.
Who acts: Winter, large cold fronts · What happens: last, see, enter · To what, where: large cold fronts
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 (Winter, large cold fronts), 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 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 see | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lasts | punct |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lasts | nsubj |
| 4 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Winter | acl:relcl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 June | case |
| 6 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lasts | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 September | case |
| 8 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lasts | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Winter | punct |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fronts | amod |
| 13 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fronts | amod |
| 14 | fronts | front | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 see | obj |
| 15 | entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 fronts | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 periods | case |
| 17 | limited | limited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 periods | amod |
| 18 | periods | period | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 entering | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Ocean | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Ocean | det |
| 21 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Ocean | compound |
| 22 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 periods | nmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 precipitation | case |
| 24 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 precipitation | amod |
| 25 | precipitation | precipitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 entering | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 winds | cc |
| 27 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 winds | amod |
| 28 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 westerly | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 north | punct |
| 30 | westerly | westerly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 winds | amod |
| 31 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 precipitation | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | present | Winter | june; september | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | may | Winter | large cold fronts | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer front=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | enter | gerund | large cold fronts not said here | for limited periods from the Atlantic Ocean; with significant precipitation and strong westerly winds | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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