Cape Town, sentence 700
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.
Control room staff for the CCTV network are able to rapidly deploy response teams, ranging from police to emergency services, based on the events occurring.
Who acts: room staff, events · What happens: be, deploy, range, base, occur · To what, where: response teams, police, emergency services, events
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 (room staff, events), 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 | Control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 room | compound |
| 2 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 staff | compound |
| 3 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 able | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 network | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 network | det |
| 6 | CCTV | CCTV | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 network | compound |
| 7 | network | network | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 staff | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 able | cop |
| 9 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 deploy | mark |
| 11 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 12 deploy | advmod |
| 12 | deploy | deploy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | xcomp |
| 13 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 teams | compound |
| 14 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 deploy | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ranging | punct |
| 16 | ranging | range | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 deploy | advcl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 police | case |
| 18 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ranging | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 services | case |
| 20 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 services | compound |
| 21 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ranging | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 based | punct |
| 23 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 services | acl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 events | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 events | det |
| 26 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 based | obl |
| 27 | occurring | occur | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 events | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | room staff for the CCTV network | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deploy | to-infinitive | room staff for the CCTV network not said here | response teams | rapidly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | range | gerund | room staff for the CCTV network not said here | police | to emergency services | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from police=Location | |||
| 4 | base | participle | emergency services not said here | the events | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on event=Source | ||||
| 5 | occur | gerund | the events not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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