Cape Town, sentence 708
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 drones are equipped with infrared cameras, and can detect body heat in cold water, trace residual heat from discharged firearms, and capture the thermal signatures of high-speed vehicles.
What happens: equip, detect, trace, discharge, capture, sign · To what, where: drones, body heat, cold water, residual heat, discharged firearms, thermal signatures
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: 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 drones | det |
| 2 | drones | drone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 equipped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 equipped | aux:pass |
| 4 | equipped | equip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 cameras | case |
| 6 | infrared | infrared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cameras | amod |
| 7 | cameras | camera | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 equipped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 detect | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 detect | cc |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 detect | aux |
| 11 | detect | detect | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 equipped | parataxis |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heat | compound |
| 13 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 detect | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 water | amod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 detect | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 trace | punct |
| 18 | trace | trace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 detect | parataxis |
| 19 | residual | residual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 heat | amod |
| 20 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trace | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 firearms | case |
| 22 | discharged | discharge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 firearms | amod |
| 23 | firearms | firearm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 trace | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 capture | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 capture | cc |
| 26 | capture | capture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 trace | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 signatures | det |
| 28 | thermal | thermal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 signatures | amod |
| 29 | signatures | signature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 capture | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 vehicles | case |
| 31 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 speed | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 high | punct |
| 33 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 vehicles | compound |
| 34 | vehicles | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 signatures | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 equipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | equip | present · passive | the drones | with infrared cameras | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with camera=Theme | ||||
| 2 | detect | can | body heat | cold water | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer heat=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | trace | present | residual heat | discharged firearms | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | discharge | participle | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | capture | infinitive | the thermal signatures of speed vehicles | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signature=Theme | |||||
| 6 | sign | speed vehicles | nom signature «communication transitive»: of=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.
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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