Cape Town, sentence 841
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.
Metrorail operates a commuter rail service in Cape Town and the surrounding area.
Who acts: Metrorail · What happens: operate · To what, where: rail service, Cape Town
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 (Metrorail), 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 | Metrorail | Metrorail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 operates | nsubj |
| 2 | operates | operate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 service | det |
| 4 | commuter | commuter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rail | compound |
| 5 | rail | rail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 service | compound |
| 6 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 operates | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Town | case |
| 8 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Town | compound |
| 9 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 service | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 area | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 area | det |
| 12 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 area | compound |
| 13 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 service | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 operates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | operate | present | Metrorail | a rail service and the surrounding area | Cape Town | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme service=Attribute |
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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