Cape Town, sentence 775
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.
In late 2017, there were first mentions of plans for "Day Zero", a shorthand reference for the day when the water level of the major dams supplying the city could fall below 13.5 percent. "
Who acts: first mentions, major dams, water level · What happens: be, supply, fall, mention · To what, where: late 2017, city, 13.5 percent, plans
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 (first mentions, major dams, water level), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 2017 | case |
| 2 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 2017 | amod |
| 3 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 were | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 2017 | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 were | expl |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 mentions | amod |
| 8 | mentions | mention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 were | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 plans | case |
| 10 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mentions | nmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Zero | case |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Zero | punct |
| 13 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Zero | compound |
| 14 | Zero | Zero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 plans | nmod |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Zero | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reference | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 reference | det |
| 18 | shorthand | shorthand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 reference | amod |
| 19 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Zero | appos |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reference | nmod |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 fall | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 level | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 level | compound |
| 26 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fall | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 dams | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 dams | det |
| 29 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dams | amod |
| 30 | dams | dam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 level | nmod |
| 31 | supplying | supply | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 dams | acl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 city | det |
| 33 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 supplying | obj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 fall | aux |
| 35 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 reference | parataxis |
| 36 | below | below | ADV | _ | 37 13.5 | advmod |
| 37 | 13.5 | 13.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 percent | nummod |
| 38 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fall | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 reference | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 reference | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | first mentions of plans for Day Zero | late 2017; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2017=Location | ||||
| 2 | supply | gerund | the major dams not said here | the city | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fall | could | the water level of the major dams | 13.5 percent | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient percent=Result | ||||
| 4 | mention | plans for Day Zero | nom mention «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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