Cape Town, sentence 555
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.
9 out of South Africa's 10 most expensive suburbs are in Cape Town.
Who acts: 10 expensive suburbs · What happens: be · To what, where: Cape Town, 9
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 (10 expensive suburbs), 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 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 Town | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Town | case |
| 4 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Africa | compound |
| 5 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Town | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Africa | case |
| 7 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 suburbs | nummod |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 expensive | advmod |
| 9 | expensive | expensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 suburbs | amod |
| 10 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Town | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Town | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Town | case |
| 13 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Town | compound |
| 14 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 9 | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 9 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | 10 expensive suburbs | South Africa's Cape Town | South Africa nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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