Cape Town, sentence 847
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 N2 begins at the foreshore area near the Cape Town city centre and runs east-south-east through Mowbray, Khayelitsha, Macassar and Somerset West before leaving the municipality as the Sir Lowry's Pass, connecting with coastal cities to the east, including Mossel Bay, George, Port Elizabeth, East London and Durban.
Who acts: N2 · What happens: begin, run, leave, connect · To what, where: foreshore area, south east, Mowbray, municipality, Mossel Bay
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 (N2), 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 N2 | det |
| 2 | N2 | n2 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begins | nsubj |
| 3 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 area | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 area | det |
| 6 | foreshore | foreshore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 area | compound |
| 7 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begins | obl |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 centre | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 centre | det |
| 10 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Town | compound |
| 11 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 centre | compound |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 centre | compound |
| 13 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 area | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 runs | cc |
| 15 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 begins | conj |
| 16 | east | east | ADV | _ | 20 east | advmod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 east | punct |
| 18 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 east | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 south | punct |
| 20 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 runs | obj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 Mowbray | case |
| 22 | Mowbray | Mowbray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 runs | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Khayelitsha | punct |
| 24 | Khayelitsha | Khayelitsha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Mowbray | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Macassar | punct |
| 26 | Macassar | Macassar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Mowbray | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Somerset | cc |
| 28 | Somerset | Somerset | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Mowbray | conj |
| 29 | West | west | ADV | _ | 31 leaving | advmod |
| 30 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 31 leaving | mark |
| 31 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 runs | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 municipality | det |
| 33 | municipality | municipality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leaving | obj |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 Pass | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Lowry | det |
| 36 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Lowry | nmod:desc |
| 37 | Lowry | Lowry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Pass | nmod:poss |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 Lowry | case |
| 39 | Pass | Pass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 leaving | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 connecting | punct |
| 41 | connecting | connect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 leaving | conj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 cities | case |
| 43 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 cities | amod |
| 44 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 connecting | obl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 east | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 east | det |
| 47 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 connecting | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 Bay | punct |
| 49 | including | including | ADP | _ | 51 Bay | case |
| 50 | Mossel | Mossel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Bay | compound |
| 51 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 connecting | obj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 George | punct |
| 53 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Bay | appos |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 Elizabeth | punct |
| 55 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 Elizabeth | compound |
| 56 | Elizabeth | Elizabeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 George | appos |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 East | punct |
| 58 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 George | conj |
| 59 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 East | flat |
| 60 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 Durban | cc |
| 61 | Durban | Durban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 George | conj |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begins | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | the N2 | the foreshore area near the Town city centre | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | run | present | the N2 not said here | south east | Mowbray and Khayelitsha and Macassar and Somerset | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent east=Theme through mowbray=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | leave | gerund | the N2 not said here | the municipality | as the Lowry Sir's Pass; west property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent municipality=Theme | |||
| 4 | connect | gerund | the N2 not said here | Mossel Bay | with coastal cities; to the east | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bay=Patient with city=Instrument to east=Co-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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