Cape Town, sentence 745
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 program allows for Cape Town households to earn money for selling excess power they generate via solar panels back to the city's grid – a first for South Africa.
Who acts: program, city · What happens: allow, earn, sell, generate · To what, where: money, excess power, grid
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 (program, city), 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 program | det |
| 2 | program | program | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 allows | nsubj |
| 3 | allows | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 households | case |
| 5 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Town | compound |
| 6 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 households | compound |
| 7 | households | household | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 allows | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 earn | mark |
| 9 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 allows | advcl |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 earn | obj |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 selling | mark |
| 12 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 earn | advcl |
| 13 | excess | excess | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 power | amod |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 selling | obj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 generate | nsubj |
| 16 | generate | generate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 power | acl:relcl |
| 17 | via | via | ADP | _ | 19 panels | case |
| 18 | solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 panels | amod |
| 19 | panels | panel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 selling | obl |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 grid | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 grid | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 city | det |
| 23 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grid | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 city | case |
| 25 | grid | grid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 selling | obl |
| 26 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 first | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 first | det |
| 28 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 allows | parataxis |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 Africa | case |
| 30 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Africa | compound |
| 31 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 first | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 allows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | present | the program | for Town households goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for household=Goal | ||||
| 2 | earn | to-infinitive | the program not said here | money | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sell | gerund | the program not said here | excess power | the city's grid | via solar panels | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent power=Theme to grid=Recipient | ||
| 4 | generate | present | city | excess power not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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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