Cape Town, sentence 668
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.
While Metro Police can and do also provide traffic-related enforcement, the Traffic Service focuses entirely on such.
Who acts: related enforcement · What happens: provide, focus
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 (related enforcement), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 Police | case |
| 2 | Metro | Metro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Police | compound |
| 3 | Police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 provide | obl |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 provide | aux |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 provide | cc |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 provide | aux |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 provide | advmod |
| 8 | provide | provide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 related | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 traffic | punct |
| 11 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 enforcement | amod |
| 12 | enforcement | enforcement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 focuses | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 focuses | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Service | det |
| 15 | Traffic | Traffic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Service | compound |
| 16 | Service | Service | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 focuses | nsubj |
| 17 | focuses | focus | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 provide | advcl |
| 18 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 17 focuses | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 such | case |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 focuses | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 provide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | can · do-support | while Metro Police | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 2 | focus | present | related enforcement | on such; the Traffic Service nsubj; entirely property | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on such=Topic |
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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