Cape Town, sentence 170
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.
While the Atlantic Seaboard averages annual sea surface temperatures average between 10 and 15 C, the False Bay coast is much warmer, averaging between 16 and 22 C annually.
Who acts: Atlantic Seaboard, Bay coast · What happens: average, be · To what, where: annual surface temperatures
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 (Atlantic Seaboard, Bay coast), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 averages | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Seaboard | det |
| 3 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Seaboard | compound |
| 4 | Seaboard | Seaboard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 averages | nsubj |
| 5 | averages | average | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 warmer | advcl |
| 6 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 temperatures | amod |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 surface | compound |
| 8 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 temperatures | compound |
| 9 | temperatures | temperature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 averages | obj |
| 10 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 temperatures | amod |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 10 | case |
| 12 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 average | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 15 | cc |
| 14 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 10 | conj |
| 15 | C | C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 10 | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 averages | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 coast | det |
| 18 | False | False | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Bay | compound |
| 19 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 coast | compound |
| 20 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 warmer | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 warmer | cop |
| 22 | much | much | ADV | _ | 23 warmer | advmod |
| 23 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 averaging | punct |
| 25 | averaging | average | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 warmer | advcl |
| 26 | between | between | ADP | _ | 27 16 | case |
| 27 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 averaging | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 22 | cc |
| 29 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 16 | conj |
| 30 | C | C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 16 | nmod:unmarked |
| 31 | annually | annually | ADV | _ | 25 averaging | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 warmer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | average | present | the Atlantic Seaboard | annual surface temperatures | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Bay coast | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | average | gerund | the Bay coast not said here | between 16 C; annually property | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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