Cape Town, sentence 514
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.
This was an increase of 36% from the average price of R1.63 million in 2014 (a decade before), indicating consistently strong returns on investment for those in the Cape Town property market.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, indicate · To what, where: increase, strong returns, investment
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 increase | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 increase | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 increase | det |
| 4 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 % | case |
| 6 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 % | nummod |
| 7 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 4 increase | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 price | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 price | det |
| 10 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 price | amod |
| 11 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 % | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 million | case |
| 13 | R1.63 | R1.63 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 million | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 price | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 2014 | case |
| 16 | 2014 | 2014 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 million | nmod |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 decade | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 decade | det |
| 19 | decade | decade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 increase | appos |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 19 decade | advmod |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 decade | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 indicating | punct |
| 23 | indicating | indicate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 increase | conj |
| 24 | consistently | consistently | ADV | _ | 25 strong | advmod |
| 25 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 returns | amod |
| 26 | returns | return | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 indicating | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 investment | case |
| 28 | investment | investment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 indicating | obl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 those | case |
| 30 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 investment | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 market | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 market | det |
| 33 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Town | compound |
| 34 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 market | compound |
| 35 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 market | compound |
| 36 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 those | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 increase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a increase | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | indicate | gerund | This not said here | strong returns | investment for those in the Town property market | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot return=Topic |
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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