Cape Town, sentence 38

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.

Notably rooikrans was introduced to stabilise the sand of the Cape Flats to allow for a road connecting the peninsula with the rest of the African continent and eucalyptus was used to drain marshes.

Who acts: road · What happens: introduce, stabilise, allow, connect, use, drain · To what, where: rooikrans, sand, peninsula, road, marshes

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 (road), 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	Notably	notably	ADV	_	4 introduced	advmod
2	rooikrans	rooikran	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 introduced	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 introduced	aux:pass
4	introduced	introduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stabilise	mark
6	stabilise	stabilise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 introduced	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sand	det
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stabilise	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 Flats	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Flats	det
11	Cape	Cape	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Flats	compound
12	Flats	Flat	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 sand	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 allow	mark
14	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stabilise	advcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 road	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 road	det
17	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 used	nsubj:pass
18	connecting	connect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 road	acl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 peninsula	det
20	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 connecting	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 rest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rest	det
23	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 connecting	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 continent	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 continent	det
26	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 continent	amod
27	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rest	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 eucalyptus	cc
29	eucalyptus	eucalyptus	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 continent	conj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 used	aux:pass
31	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 allow	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 drain	mark
33	drain	drain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 used	advcl
34	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 drain	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 introduced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	introduce	past · passive		rooikrans	notably property	tree rules
2	stabilise	to-infinitive		the sand of the Cape Flats		tree rules
3	allow	to-infinitive				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
4	connect	gerund	a road not said here	the peninsula	with the rest of the African continent and eucalyptus	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent peninsula=Patient with rest=Co-Patient
5	use	past · passive		a road		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	drain	to-infinitive		marshes		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent marsh=Source

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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Cape Town, sentence 38