Cape Town, sentence 916
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.
These taxis make frequent unscheduled stops to pick up passengers, which can cause accidents.
Who acts: taxis, passengers · What happens: make, unschedul, stop, pick up, cause · To what, where: passengers, accidents
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 (taxis, passengers), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 taxis | det |
| 2 | taxis | taxi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 unscheduled | amod |
| 5 | unscheduled | unschedul | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stops | csubj |
| 6 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pick | mark |
| 8 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stops | xcomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 pick | compound:prt |
| 10 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pick | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cause | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 cause | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 cause | aux |
| 14 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 passengers | acl:relcl |
| 15 | accidents | accident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cause | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | this taxis | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material | |||||
| 2 | unschedul | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | stop | present | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | pick up | to-infinitive | passengers | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passenger=Topic | |||||
| 5 | cause | can | passengers | accidents | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition accident=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.
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