Cape Town, sentence 868
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.
Except for a section between Rondebosch and Newlands that has at-grade intersections, this route is a highway.
Who acts: you, Newlands, route · What happens: except, have, be · To what, where: grade intersections, highway
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 (you, Newlands, route), 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 | Except | except | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 section | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 section | det |
| 4 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Except | obl |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 Rondebosch | case |
| 6 | Rondebosch | Rondebosch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 section | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Newlands | cc |
| 8 | Newlands | newland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 section | conj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Newlands | acl:relcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 intersections | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 at | punct |
| 13 | grade | grade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 intersections | compound |
| 14 | intersections | intersection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 has | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 highway | punct |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 route | det |
| 17 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 highway | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 highway | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 highway | det |
| 20 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 intersections | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Except | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | except | imperative | you not said here | for a section between Rondebosch and Newlands | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Newlands | grade intersections and a highway | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | this route | a highway | tree rules |
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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