Cape Town, sentence 982
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.
Cape Town also hosted several the matches in the 2010 FIFA World Cup including a semi-final.
Who acts: Cape · What happens: host, include · To what, where: several matches, 2010 FIFA World Cup
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 (Cape), 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 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hosted | nsubj |
| 2 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cape | flat |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 hosted | advmod |
| 4 | hosted | host | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 matches | amod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 matches | det |
| 7 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hosted | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Cup | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Cup | det |
| 10 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 Cup | compound |
| 11 | FIFA | FIFA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Cup | compound |
| 12 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Cup | compound |
| 13 | Cup | Cup | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hosted | obl |
| 14 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 semi-final | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 semi-final | det |
| 16 | semi-final | semi-final | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Cup | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hosted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | host | past | Cape | the several matches | the 2010 FIFA World Cup include a semi-final | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | include | gerund | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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