Cape Town, sentence 341
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 northern and eastern sections of the city was the scene of the 2021 Cape Town taxi conflict, a violent turf war which led to 83 deaths.
Who acts: northern sections, violent turf war · What happens: be, lead, section · To what, where: scene, 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 (northern sections, violent turf war), 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 | 5 sections | det |
| 2 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sections | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 eastern | cc |
| 4 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 northern | conj |
| 5 | sections | section | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 scene | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sections | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 scene | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 scene | det |
| 11 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 conflict | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 conflict | det |
| 14 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 Town | nummod |
| 15 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Town | compound |
| 16 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 conflict | compound |
| 17 | taxi | taxi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 conflict | compound |
| 18 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 scene | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 war | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 war | det |
| 21 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 war | amod |
| 22 | turf | turf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 war | compound |
| 23 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 scene | appos |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 led | nsubj |
| 25 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 war | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 deaths | case |
| 27 | 83 | 83 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 deaths | nummod |
| 28 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 led | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 scene | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the northern sections of the city | the scene | of the Town taxi conflict; a violent turf war appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lead | past | a violent turf war | to 83 deaths | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to death=Patient | ||||
| 3 | section | the city | nom section «communication transitive»: of=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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