Cape Town, sentence 538
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.
The consistently strong property prices and growth thereof can be attributed to numerous factors, including good service delivery by local government, a strong local economy, the coastal lifestyle that Capetonians enjoy, and semigration (individuals moving from other South African provinces into the Western Cape).
Who acts: Capetonians, semigration individuals, local government · What happens: attribute, enjoy, move, deliver · To what, where: strong property prices, coastal lifestyle, African provinces, other South
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 (Capetonians, semigration individuals, local government), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prices | det |
| 2 | consistently | consistently | ADV | _ | 3 strong | advmod |
| 3 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prices | amod |
| 4 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prices | compound |
| 5 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 attributed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 growth | cc |
| 7 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prices | conj |
| 8 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 7 growth | advmod |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 attributed | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 attributed | aux:pass |
| 11 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 factors | case |
| 13 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 factors | amod |
| 14 | factors | factor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 attributed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 delivery | punct |
| 16 | including | including | ADP | _ | 19 delivery | case |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 delivery | amod |
| 18 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 delivery | compound |
| 19 | delivery | delivery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attributed | parataxis |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 government | case |
| 21 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 government | amod |
| 22 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 delivery | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 economy | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 economy | det |
| 25 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 economy | amod |
| 26 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 economy | amod |
| 27 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 delivery | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lifestyle | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lifestyle | det |
| 30 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lifestyle | amod |
| 31 | lifestyle | lifestyle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 delivery | conj |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 enjoy | obj |
| 33 | Capetonians | Capetonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 enjoy | nsubj |
| 34 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 lifestyle | acl:relcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 individuals | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 individuals | cc |
| 37 | semigration | semigration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 individuals | compound |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 individuals | punct |
| 39 | individuals | individual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 attributed | obl |
| 40 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 individuals | acl |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 South | case |
| 42 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 South | amod |
| 43 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 moving | obl |
| 44 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 provinces | amod |
| 45 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 moving | obj |
| 46 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 Cape | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Cape | det |
| 48 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 Cape | amod |
| 49 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 moving | obl |
| 50 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 40 moving | punct |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 attributed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attribute | can · passive | the strong property prices and growth | to numerous factors; semigration individuals obl; good service delivery by local government and a strong local economy and the coastal lifestyle parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enjoy | present | Capetonians | the coastal lifestyle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | move | gerund | semigration individuals not said here | African provinces | other South | into the Western Cape result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent province=Theme into cape=Result | ||
| 4 | deliver | local government | nom delivery «act transitive»: by=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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