Cape Town, sentence 30
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.
British forces occupied the Cape again in 1806 following the Battle of Blaauwberg when the Batavian Republic allied with Britain's rival, France, during the Napoleonic Wars.
Who acts: British forces, Batavian Republic · What happens: occupy, follow, ally · To what, where: Cape, 1806, Battle
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 (British forces, Batavian Republic), 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 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 forces | amod |
| 2 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 occupied | nsubj |
| 3 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Cape | det |
| 5 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 occupied | obj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 occupied | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1806 | case |
| 8 | 1806 | 1806 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 occupied | obl |
| 9 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 occupied | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Battle | det |
| 11 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 following | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Blaauwberg | case |
| 13 | Blaauwberg | Blaauwberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Battle | nmod |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 allied | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Republic | det |
| 16 | Batavian | Batavian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Republic | compound |
| 17 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 allied | nsubj |
| 18 | allied | ally | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 occupied | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 rival | case |
| 20 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 rival | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Britain | case |
| 22 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 allied | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 France | punct |
| 24 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 rival | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Wars | punct |
| 26 | during | during | ADP | _ | 29 Wars | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Wars | det |
| 28 | Napoleonic | Napoleonic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Wars | compound |
| 29 | Wars | War | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 allied | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 occupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | past | British forces | the Cape | 1806 | again | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cape=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | follow | gerund | the Battle of Blaauwberg | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ally | past | the Batavian Republic | during the Napoleonic Wars | with Britain's rival | vn conspire-71 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with rival=Co-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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