Cape Town, sentence 671
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.
Traffic Services began using dashboard-mounted cameras (dashcams) in 2023, for added security.
Who acts: Traffic Services · What happens: begin, use, mount, add · To what, where: 2023, mounted cameras
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 (Traffic Services), 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 | Traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Services | compound |
| 2 | Services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 began | xcomp |
| 5 | dashboard | dashboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mounted | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 dashboard | punct |
| 7 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cameras | amod |
| 8 | cameras | camera | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 using | obj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 dashcams | punct |
| 10 | dashcams | dashcam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cameras | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 dashcams | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 2023 | case |
| 13 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 began | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 security | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 security | case |
| 16 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 security | amod |
| 17 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Traffic Services | 2023 | for added security | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | use | gerund | Traffic Services not said here | mounted cameras | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camera=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mount | participle | dashboard compound | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | participle | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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