Cape Town, sentence 737
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.
President Ramaphosa announced the changes in a speech to Parliament in the same year, which marked the first time municipalities were allowed to buy energy from sources other than state-owned Eskom's monopolistic system.
Who acts: President, same year, first time municipalities · What happens: announce, mark, allow, buy, own · To what, where: changes, speech, first time municipalities, energy, sources, monopolistic system
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 (President, same year, first time municipalities), 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 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 announced | nsubj |
| 2 | Ramaphosa | Ramaphosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 President | flat |
| 3 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 changes | det |
| 5 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 announced | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 speech | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 speech | det |
| 8 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 announced | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Parliament | case |
| 10 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 speech | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 year | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 year | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 year | amod |
| 14 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 announced | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 marked | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 marked | nsubj |
| 17 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 year | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 municipalities | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 municipalities | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 municipalities | compound |
| 21 | municipalities | municipality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 allowed | aux:pass |
| 23 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 marked | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 buy | mark |
| 25 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 allowed | xcomp |
| 26 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 buy | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 sources | case |
| 28 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 buy | obl |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sources | amod |
| 30 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 33 owned | mark |
| 31 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 owned | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 state | punct |
| 33 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 other | advcl |
| 34 | Eskom | Eskom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 system | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 Eskom | case |
| 36 | monopolistic | monopolistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 system | amod |
| 37 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 owned | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | President | the changes | a speech to Parliament | year | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme | ||
| 2 | mark | past | the same year | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | allow | past · passive | the first time municipalities | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | the first time municipalities not said here | energy | sources | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent energy=Theme from source=Source | |||
| 5 | own | participle | the first time municipalities not said here | Eskom's monopolistic system | state compound | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot system=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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