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title: The N1, a major highway running roughly SW to NE from Cape Town to J… — Bloemfontein · tree and pragmatics
description: The N1, a major highway running roughly SW to NE from Cape Town to Johannesburg, Pretoria and Zimbabwe largely bypasses the city centre to the west as the Bloemfontein Western Bypass. Who acts: major highway, N1. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bloemfontein» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bloemfontein, sentence 176

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From Wikipedia, [«Bloemfontein»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloemfontein), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The N1, a major highway running roughly SW to NE from Cape Town to Johannesburg, Pretoria and Zimbabwe largely bypasses the city centre to the west as the Bloemfontein Western Bypass.

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**Who acts:** major highway, N1 · **What happens:** run, bypass · **To what, where:** SW, NE, city centre

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bloemfontein». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (major highway, N1), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Bloemfontein:176
# text = The N1, a major highway running roughly SW to NE from Cape Town to Johannesburg, Pretoria and Zimbabwe largely bypasses the city centre to the west as the Bloemfontein Western Bypass.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	N1	N1	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
7	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	SW	SW	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	NE	NE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Johannesburg	Johannesburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Pretoria	Pretoria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	bypasses	bypass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	Bloemfontein	Bloemfontein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	Western	Western	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Bypass	Bypass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund | a major highway *not said here* | SW | NE from Cape Town |  |  | to Johannesburg and Pretoria and Zimbabwe | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ne=Result |
| 2 | **bypass** | present | the N1 | the city centre |  |  |  | to the west as the Bloemfontein Western Bypass; a major highway *nsubj*; largely *property* | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Bloemfontein», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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