Cape Town, sentence 927
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 annual Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, also known by its Afrikaans name of Kaapse Klopse, is a large minstrel festival held annually on 2 January or "Tweede Nuwe Jaar" (Second New Year).
Who acts: annual Minstrel Carnival, Carnival · What happens: know, be, hold, name · To what, where: annual Minstrel Carnival, large minstrel festival, Kaapse
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 (annual Minstrel Carnival, Carnival), 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 | 6 Carnival | det |
| 2 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Carnival | amod |
| 3 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Town | compound |
| 4 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Minstrel | compound |
| 5 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Carnival | compound |
| 6 | Carnival | Carnival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 festival | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 known | punct |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 known | advmod |
| 9 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Carnival | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 name | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Afrikaans | afrikaans | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 name | compound |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 known | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Kaapse | case |
| 15 | Kaapse | Kaapse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 name | nmod |
| 16 | Klopse | Klopse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Kaapse | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Carnival | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 festival | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 festival | det |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 festival | amod |
| 21 | minstrel | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 festival | compound |
| 22 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 23 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 festival | acl |
| 24 | annually | annually | ADV | _ | 23 held | advmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 January | case |
| 26 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 January | nummod |
| 27 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 held | obl |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 Tweede | cc |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Tweede | punct |
| 30 | Tweede | Tweede | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 January | conj |
| 31 | Nuwe | Nuwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Tweede | flat |
| 32 | Jaar | Jaar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Tweede | flat |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Tweede | punct |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 37 Year | punct |
| 35 | Second | Second | PROPN | _ | 37 Year | compound |
| 36 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Year | compound |
| 37 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Tweede | appos |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 Year | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 festival | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | the annual Minstrel Carnival not said here | by Carnival's Afrikaans name of Kaapse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the annual Minstrel Carnival | a large minstrel festival | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold | participle | a large minstrel festival not said here | january | annually property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | name | Carnival | Kaapse | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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