Cape Town, sentence 359
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.
Since July 2019 widespread violent crime in poorer gang dominated areas of greater Cape Town has resulted in an ongoing military presence in these neighbourhoods.
What happens: dominate, result · To what, where: dominated areas, ongoing military presence, 2019 widespread violent crime
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: 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 6 crime | mark |
| 2 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 2019 | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | 2019 | 2019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 crime | compound |
| 4 | widespread | widespread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crime | amod |
| 5 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crime | amod |
| 6 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 gang | case |
| 8 | poorer | poor | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 gang | amod |
| 9 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crime | nmod |
| 10 | dominated | dominate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 areas | amod |
| 11 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gang | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Town | case |
| 13 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 Town | amod |
| 14 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Town | compound |
| 15 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 resulted | obl |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 resulted | aux |
| 17 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 areas | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 presence | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 presence | det |
| 20 | ongoing | ongoing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 presence | amod |
| 21 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 presence | amod |
| 22 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 resulted | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 neighbourhoods | case |
| 24 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 neighbourhoods | det |
| 25 | neighbourhoods | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 presence | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 crime | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dominate | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | result | present · perfect | dominated areas not said here | a ongoing military presence in this neighbourhoods | of greater Cape Town | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in presence=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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