Cape Town, sentence 279
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.
87.3% of households have piped water to the dwelling, while 12.0% have piped water through a communal tap.
What happens: pipe · To what, where: water, 12.0 %, communal tap
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: 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 | 87.3 | 87.3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 % | nummod |
| 2 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 6 piped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 households | case |
| 4 | households | household | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 % | nmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 piped | aux |
| 6 | piped | pipe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piped | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 dwelling | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dwelling | det |
| 10 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 piped | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 piped | mark |
| 13 | 12.0 | 12.0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 % | nummod |
| 14 | % | % | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 piped | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 piped | aux |
| 16 | piped | pipe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 piped | conj |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 piped | obj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 tap | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tap | det |
| 20 | communal | communal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tap | amod |
| 21 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 piped | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 piped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pipe | present · perfect · passive | water | to the dwelling | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pipe | present · perfect · passive | 12.0 % | a communal tap | water obj | 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.
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