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title: The sedimentary rocks of the Cape Supergroup, of which parts of the… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: The sedimentary rocks of the Cape Supergroup, of which parts of the Graafwater and Peninsula Formations remain, were uplifted between 280 and 21S million years ago, and were largely eroded away during the Mesozoic. Who acts: Formations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree 
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# Cape Town, sentence 114

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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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The sedimentary rocks of the Cape Supergroup, of which parts of the Graafwater and Peninsula Formations remain, were uplifted between 280 and 21S million years ago, and were largely eroded away during the Mesozoic.

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**Who acts:** Formations · **What happens:** remain, uplift, erode away · **To what, where:** Graafwater, sedimentary rocks

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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 (Formations), 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:114
# text = The sedimentary rocks of the Cape Supergroup, of which parts of the Graafwater and Peninsula Formations remain, were uplifted between 280 and 21S million years ago, and were largely eroded away during the Mesozoic.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sedimentary	sedimentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Supergroup	supergroup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	11	det	_	_
11	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Graafwater	Graafwater	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	Formations	formation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	uplifted	uplift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	280	280	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	21S	21	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	_
26	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	eroded	erode	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	during	during	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Mesozoic	Mesozoic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present | Formations | the Graafwater and Peninsula *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme graafwater=Attribute |
| 2 | **uplift** | past · passive |  | the sedimentary rocks of the Cape Supergroup and which parts of the Graafwater and Peninsula |  |  |  | between 280; 21S *conj*; ago *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **erode away** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | during the Mesozoic | away, largely *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V» |

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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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