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title: False Bay is open to the south, and the prevailing open ocean swell… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: False Bay is open to the south, and the prevailing open ocean swell arrives from the southwest, so the exposure varies considerably around the coastline. Who acts: False Bay, open ocean swell, exposure. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 1006

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From Wikipedia, [«Cape Town»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town), 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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False Bay is open to the south, and the prevailing open ocean swell arrives from the southwest, so the exposure varies considerably around the coastline.

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**Who acts:** False Bay, open ocean swell, exposure · **What happens:** be, prevail, swell, arrive, vary · **To what, where:** southwest, coastline

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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 (False Bay, open ocean swell, exposure), 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:Cape_Town:1006
# text = False Bay is open to the south, and the prevailing open ocean swell arrives from the southwest, so the exposure varies considerably around the coastline.
1	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	prevailing	prevail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	nsubj	_	_
12	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	swell	swell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	southwest	southwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	exposure	exposure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	varies	vary	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	considerably	considerably	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	around	around	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	coastline	coastline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | False Bay |  |  |  |  | to the south; open *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prevail** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **swell** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **arrive** | present | the open ocean swell |  |  | the southwest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from southwest=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **vary** | present | the exposure |  |  | the coastline |  | considerably *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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, «Cape Town», 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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