Cape Town, sentence 603
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 city derives its main undersea connectivity from West African cable routes, such as WACS, Equiano, and SACS, as well as Pan African cables like 2africa.
Who acts: city · What happens: derive · To what, where: main undersea connectivity, West African cable routes
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 (city), 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 | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 derives | nsubj |
| 3 | derives | derive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 connectivity | nmod:poss |
| 5 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 connectivity | amod |
| 6 | undersea | undersea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 connectivity | compound |
| 7 | connectivity | connectivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 derives | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 routes | case |
| 9 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 routes | compound |
| 10 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 routes | amod |
| 11 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 routes | compound |
| 12 | routes | route | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 derives | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 WACS | punct |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 16 WACS | case |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 such | fixed |
| 16 | WACS | wac | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 routes | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Equiano | punct |
| 18 | Equiano | Equiano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 routes | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 SACS | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 SACS | cc |
| 21 | SACS | sac | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 derives | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cables | punct |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 28 cables | cc |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 as | fixed |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 as | fixed |
| 26 | Pan | Pan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 cables | compound |
| 27 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cables | amod |
| 28 | cables | cable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 SACS | nmod |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 africa | case |
| 30 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 africa | nummod |
| 31 | africa | africa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cables | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 derives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derive | present | the city | connectivity's main undersea connectivity | West African cable routes Equiano and WACS | SACS Pan African cables like 2 africa obl | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent connectivity=Result from route=Material |
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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