Cape Town, sentence 781
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.
Good rains in 2020 effectively broke the drought and resulting water shortage when dam levels reached 95 percent.
Who acts: Good rains, dam levels · What happens: break, result, reach · To what, where: drought, 95 percent
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 (Good rains, dam levels), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rains | amod |
| 2 | rains | rain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 2020 | case |
| 4 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 rains | nmod |
| 5 | effectively | effectively | ADV | _ | 6 broke | advmod |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 drought | det |
| 8 | drought | drought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shortage | cc |
| 10 | resulting | result | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 shortage | amod |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shortage | compound |
| 12 | shortage | shortage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drought | conj |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 reached | mark |
| 14 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 levels | compound |
| 15 | levels | level | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 broke | advcl |
| 17 | 95 | 95 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 percent | nummod |
| 18 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | Good rains in 2020 | the drought and resulting water shortage | effectively property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drought=Patient | |||
| 2 | result | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | reach | past | dam levels | 95 percent | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent percent=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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