Cape Town, sentence 853
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 R27 originates from the N1 near the Foreshore and runs north parallel to the N7, but nearer to the coast.
Who acts: R27 · What happens: originate, run · To what, where: N1
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 (R27), 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 R27 | det |
| 2 | R27 | R27 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 originates | nsubj |
| 3 | originates | originate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 N1 | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 N1 | det |
| 6 | N1 | N1 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 originates | obl |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 Foreshore | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Foreshore | det |
| 9 | Foreshore | Foreshore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 N1 | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 runs | cc |
| 11 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 originates | conj |
| 12 | north | north | ADV | _ | 13 parallel | advmod |
| 13 | parallel | parallel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 runs | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 N7 | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 N7 | det |
| 16 | N7 | N7 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 parallel | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 nearer | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 nearer | cc |
| 19 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 originates | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 coast | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 coast | det |
| 22 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nearer | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 originates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | originate | present | the R27 | the N1 near the Foreshore | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | run | present | the R27 not said here | parallel property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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