Cape Town, sentence 861
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 R304 enters the northern limits of the metro from Stellenbosch, running north-north-west before veering west to cross the N7 at Philadelphia to end at Atlantis at a junction with the R307.
Who acts: R304 · What happens: enter, run, veer, cross, end · To what, where: northern limits, north west, N7, Philadelphia, Atlantis
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 (R304), 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 R304 | det |
| 2 | R304 | r304 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 enters | nsubj |
| 3 | enters | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 limits | det |
| 5 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 limits | amod |
| 6 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 enters | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 metro | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 metro | det |
| 9 | metro | metro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 limits | nmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Stellenbosch | case |
| 11 | Stellenbosch | Stellenbosch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 metro | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 running | punct |
| 13 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 enters | conj |
| 14 | north | north | ADV | _ | 18 west | advmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 north | punct |
| 16 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 west | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 north | punct |
| 18 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 running | obl |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 veering | mark |
| 20 | veering | veer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 running | advcl |
| 21 | west | west | ADV | _ | 20 veering | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 cross | mark |
| 23 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 veering | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 N7 | det |
| 25 | N7 | N7 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 cross | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 Philadelphia | case |
| 27 | Philadelphia | Philadelphia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 cross | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 end | mark |
| 29 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 cross | advcl |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 Atlantis | case |
| 31 | Atlantis | Atlantis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 end | obl |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 junction | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 junction | det |
| 34 | junction | junction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 end | obl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 R307 | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 R307 | det |
| 37 | R307 | R307 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 junction | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 enters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | present | the R304 | the northern limits of the metro from Stellenbosch | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme limit=Destination | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | the R304 not said here | north west | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | veer | gerund | the R304 not said here | west property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cross | to-infinitive | the R304 not said here | the N7 | Philadelphia | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent n7=Patient | |||
| 5 | end | to-infinitive | the R304 not said here | Atlantis | at a junction with the R307 | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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