Cape Town, sentence 777
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.
If this had occurred, it would have made the City of Cape Town the first major city in the world to run out of water.
Who acts: this · What happens: occur, make, run · To what, where: level, water
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 (this), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 occurred | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 occurred | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 occurred | aux |
| 4 | occurred | occur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 made | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 occurred | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | aux |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 City | det |
| 11 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Town | case |
| 13 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Town | compound |
| 14 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 City | nmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 city | amod |
| 17 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 city | amod |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 city | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 run | mark |
| 23 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 city | acl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 run | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | this | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | would · perfect · passive | level | the City of Cape Town obj; the first major city obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | water | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out water=Trajectory |
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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