Cape Town, sentence 476
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.
Boulders Beach near Simon's Town is known for its colony of African penguins.
Who acts: Boulders · What happens: beach, know · To what, where: Town
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 (Boulders), 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 | Boulders | boulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Beach | nsubj |
| 2 | Beach | beach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 Town | case |
| 4 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Town | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Simon | case |
| 6 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 known | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 known | aux:pass |
| 8 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Beach | parataxis |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 colony | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 colony | nmod:poss |
| 11 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 known | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 penguins | case |
| 13 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 penguins | amod |
| 14 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 colony | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beach | present | Boulders | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | present · passive | Simon's Town | for area's colony of African penguins | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Cape Town», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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