Cape Town, sentence 239
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.
Cape Town has nineteen active sister city agreements
Who acts: Cape · What happens: have · To what, where: nineteen active city agreements
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 (Cape), 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 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 2 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cape | flat |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nineteen | nineteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 agreements | nummod |
| 5 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 agreements | amod |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 city | compound |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 agreements | compound |
| 8 | agreements | agreement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Cape | nineteen active city agreements | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agreement=Patient |
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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