Cape Town, sentence 641
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.
Many students use NSFAS funding to help pay for tertiary education at these TVET colleges.
Who acts: Many students · What happens: use, help, pay · To what, where: NSFAS funding, TVET colleges
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 (Many students), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 students | amod |
| 2 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | NSFAS | NSFAS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 funding | compound |
| 5 | funding | funding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 use | advcl |
| 8 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 help | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 education | case |
| 10 | tertiary | tertiary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 education | amod |
| 11 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pay | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 colleges | case |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 colleges | det |
| 14 | TVET | tvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 colleges | compound |
| 15 | colleges | college | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pay | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Many students | NSFAS funding | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent funding=Patient | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | Many students not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pay | infinitive | Many students not said here | this TVET colleges | for tertiary education | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for education=Theme |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Cape Town», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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