Cape Town, sentence 347
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.
These suburbs are also best avoided (even during transit) by locals and tourists.
Who acts: locals · What happens: avoid · To what, where: suburbs
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 (locals), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 suburbs | det |
| 2 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 avoided | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 avoided | aux:pass |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 avoided | advmod |
| 5 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 avoided | advmod |
| 6 | avoided | avoid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 transit | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 transit | advmod |
| 9 | during | during | ADP | _ | 10 transit | case |
| 10 | transit | transit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 avoided | obl |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 transit | punct |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 locals | case |
| 13 | locals | local | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 avoided | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tourists | cc |
| 15 | tourists | tourist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 locals | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 avoided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avoid | present · passive | locals and tourists | this suburbs | during transit | well property | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent subject=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.
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