Cape Town, sentence 883
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.
Several other companies run long-distance bus services between Cape Town and other South African cities.
Who acts: Several other companies · What happens: run · To what, where: distance bus services, 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 (Several other companies), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 companies | amod |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 companies | amod |
| 3 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 run | nsubj |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 distance | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 7 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 services | compound |
| 8 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 services | compound |
| 9 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 run | obj |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 Town | case |
| 11 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Town | compound |
| 12 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 services | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cities | cc |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cities | amod |
| 15 | South | south | ADV | _ | 16 African | advmod |
| 16 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cities | amod |
| 17 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Town | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | Several other companies | distance bus services | Cape Town and other African cities | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent service=Theme between town=Trajectory |
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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