Cape Town, sentence 518
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's property market grows at a rate far exceeding that of other major metropolitan areas in the country.
Who acts: property market, Cape · What happens: grow, exceed, market · To what, where: rate
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 (property market, Cape), 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 | 5 market | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cape | flat |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Cape | case |
| 4 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 market | compound |
| 5 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grows | nsubj |
| 6 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 rate | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rate | det |
| 9 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grows | obl |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 exceeding | advmod |
| 11 | exceeding | exceed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 grows | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 areas | mark |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 areas | case |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 areas | amod |
| 15 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 areas | amod |
| 16 | metropolitan | metropolitan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 areas | compound |
| 17 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 exceeding | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 areas | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Cape's property market | a rate | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at rate=Location | ||||
| 2 | exceed | gerund | Cape's property market not said here | other major metropolitan areas in the country advcl; far property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | market | Cape | nom market «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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