Cape Town, sentence 437
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.
Cape Town is also home to the headquarters of South Africa's largest mass media corporation, and the country's third-largest listed company by annual revenue, Naspers.
Who acts: Cape Town · What happens: be, list
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 (Cape Town), 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 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Town | compound |
| 2 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 headquarters | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 headquarters | cop |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 home | advmod |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 headquarters | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 headquarters | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 headquarters | det |
| 8 | headquarters | headquarters | NOUN | Number=Ptan | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 corporation | case |
| 10 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Africa | compound |
| 11 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 corporation | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Africa | case |
| 13 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 corporation | amod |
| 14 | mass | mass | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 corporation | amod |
| 15 | media | media | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 corporation | compound |
| 16 | corporation | corporation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 headquarters | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 company | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 company | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 company | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 country | case |
| 22 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 company | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 third | punct |
| 24 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 company | amod |
| 25 | listed | list | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 company | amod |
| 26 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 headquarters | nmod |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 revenue | case |
| 28 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 revenue | amod |
| 29 | revenue | revenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 company | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Naspers | punct |
| 31 | Naspers | nasper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 revenue | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 headquarters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Cape Town | to the headquarters; of South Africa's largest mass media corporation; the country's third largest listed company by annual revenue and Naspers nmod; home property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | list | participle | tree rules |
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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