Cape Town, sentence 305
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.
In the 2022 South African Census, religious data were gathered for the Western Cape province, of which Cape Town is the capital and largest city (with 64.21% of the province's population residing in the City of Cape Town metro area).
Who acts: Cape Town · What happens: gather, be, reside · To what, where: religious data, 2022 South African Census, capital, City
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 Town), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 Census | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Census | det |
| 3 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 Census | compound |
| 4 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Census | compound |
| 5 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Census | amod |
| 6 | Census | Census | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 gathered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Census | punct |
| 8 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 data | amod |
| 9 | data | data | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gathered | aux:pass |
| 11 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 province | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 province | det |
| 14 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 province | amod |
| 15 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 province | compound |
| 16 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gathered | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 capital | punct |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 capital | obl |
| 20 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Town | compound |
| 21 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 capital | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 capital | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 capital | det |
| 24 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gathered | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 city | cc |
| 26 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 city | amod |
| 27 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 capital | conj |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 % | punct |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 % | case |
| 30 | 64.21 | 64.21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 % | nummod |
| 31 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 27 city | appos |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 population | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 province | det |
| 34 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 population | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 province | case |
| 36 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 % | nmod |
| 37 | residing | reside | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 45 area | csubj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 City | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 City | det |
| 40 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 residing | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Town | case |
| 42 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Town | compound |
| 43 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 City | nmod |
| 44 | metro | metro | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 area | amod |
| 45 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 % | parataxis |
| 46 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 % | punct |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past · passive | religious data | the 2022 South African Census | for the Western Cape province | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for province=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Cape Town | the capital and largest city | which obl; largest city conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | reside | gerund | the City of Cape Town | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location |
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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