Cape Town, sentence 34
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.
The Convict Crisis of 1849, marked by substantial civil upheaval, bolstered the push for self-governance in the Cape.
Who acts: substantial civil upheaval · What happens: mark, bolster · To what, where: Convict Crisis, push
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 (substantial civil upheaval), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Crisis | det |
| 2 | Convict | convict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Crisis | amod |
| 3 | Crisis | Crisis | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 1849 | case |
| 5 | 1849 | 1849 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Crisis | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 marked | punct |
| 7 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Crisis | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 upheaval | case |
| 9 | substantial | substantial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 upheaval | amod |
| 10 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 upheaval | amod |
| 11 | upheaval | upheaval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bolstered | punct |
| 13 | bolstered | bolster | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 upheaval | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 push | det |
| 15 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bolstered | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 governance | case |
| 17 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 governance | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 self | punct |
| 19 | governance | governance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 push | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Cape | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Cape | det |
| 22 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 governance | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Crisis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | participle | the Convict Crisis of 1849 not said here | by substantial civil upheaval | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent by upheaval=Destination | ||||
| 2 | bolster | participle | substantial civil upheaval not said here | the push | for self governance in the Cape | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot push=Theme |
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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