Cape Town, sentence 172
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.
Beaches located on the Atlantic Coast tend to have colder water due to the wind driven upwellings which contribute to the Benguela Current which originates off the Cape Peninsula, while the water at False Bay beaches may occasionally be warmer by up to 10 C-change at the same time in summer.
Who acts: Beaches, driven upwellings, Benguela Current, water · What happens: locate, tend, have, drive, contribute, originate · To what, where: Beaches, Atlantic Coast, colder water, Benguela Current
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 (Beaches, driven upwellings, Benguela Current, water), 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 | Beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tend | nsubj |
| 2 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Beaches | acl |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Coast | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Coast | det |
| 5 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Coast | compound |
| 6 | Coast | Coast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 located | obl |
| 7 | tend | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tend | xcomp |
| 10 | colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 water | amod |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 17 upwellings | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 due | fixed |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wind | det |
| 15 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 upwellings | nsubj |
| 16 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 upwellings | amod |
| 17 | upwellings | upwelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obl |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 contribute | nsubj |
| 19 | contribute | contribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 upwellings | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Current | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Current | det |
| 22 | Benguela | Benguela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Current | compound |
| 23 | Current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 contribute | obl |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 originates | nsubj |
| 25 | originates | originate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Current | acl:relcl |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 Peninsula | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Peninsula | det |
| 28 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Peninsula | compound |
| 29 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 originates | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 warmer | punct |
| 31 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 41 warmer | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 water | det |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 warmer | nsubj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 beaches | case |
| 35 | False | False | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Bay | compound |
| 36 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 beaches | compound |
| 37 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 water | nmod |
| 38 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 warmer | aux |
| 39 | occasionally | occasionally | ADV | _ | 41 warmer | advmod |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 warmer | cop |
| 41 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 tend | advcl |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 48 change | case |
| 43 | up | up | ADV | _ | 45 10 | advmod |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 10 | case |
| 45 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 change | nummod |
| 46 | C | C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 change | compound |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 change | punct |
| 48 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 warmer | obl |
| 49 | at | at | ADP | _ | 52 time | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 time | det |
| 51 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 time | amod |
| 52 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 change | nmod |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 summer | case |
| 54 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 time | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | participle | Beaches not said here | the Atlantic Coast | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tend | present | Beaches | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | Beaches not said here | colder water | due driven upwellings the wind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | |||
| 4 | drive | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | contribute | present | driven upwellings the wind | the Benguela Current | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to current=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | originate | present | the Benguela Current | off the Cape Peninsula | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is | may | the water at Bay beaches | by 10 C change at the same time in summer; occasionally, warm 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Cape Town», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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