Cape Town, sentence 54
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.
Formerly multi-racial suburbs of Cape Town were either purged of residents deemed unlawful by apartheid legislation, or demolished.
What happens: purge, deem, demolish · To what, where: multi-racial suburbs, residents
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: 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 | Formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 2 multi-racial | advmod |
| 2 | multi-racial | multi-racial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 suburbs | amod |
| 3 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 purged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Town | case |
| 5 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Town | compound |
| 6 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 suburbs | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 purged | aux:pass |
| 8 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 purged | advmod |
| 9 | purged | purge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 residents | case |
| 11 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 purged | obl |
| 12 | deemed | deem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 residents | acl |
| 13 | unlawful | unlawful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 deemed | xcomp |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 legislation | case |
| 15 | apartheid | apartheid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 legislation | amod |
| 16 | legislation | legislation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deemed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 demolished | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 demolished | cc |
| 19 | demolished | demolish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 purged | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 purged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purge | past · passive | multi-racial suburbs of Cape Town | of residents; either property | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source of resident=Theme | ||||
| 2 | deem | participle | residents not said here | by apartheid legislation; unlawful property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | demolish | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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