Cape Town, sentence 999
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.
It was also one of the host cities of the 2009 Indian Premier League cricket tournament.
Who acts: profile · What happens: be · To what, where: one
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 (profile), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 one | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cities | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cities | det |
| 7 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cities | compound |
| 8 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tournament | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tournament | det |
| 11 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 tournament | nsubj |
| 12 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tournament | amod |
| 13 | Premier | Premier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 League | compound |
| 14 | League | League | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 tournament | compound |
| 15 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tournament | compound |
| 16 | tournament | tournament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cities | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | profile | one | of the host cities of the Indian League cricket tournament | 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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