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title: At their most generous and conservative estimates, D. D. Stynder et… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: At their most generous and conservative estimates, D. D. Stynder et al. radiocarbon date SAM-AP 4692 to the mid-Holocene at 5448 and 5136 BCE (or 7457 and 7145 cal BP) respectively. Who acts: et, estimations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 14

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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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At their most generous and conservative estimates, D. D. Stynder et al. radiocarbon date SAM-AP 4692 to the mid-Holocene at 5448 and 5136 BCE (or 7457 and 7145 cal BP) respectively.

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**Who acts:** et, estimations · **What happens:** date, estimate · **To what, where:** most generous estimates

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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 (et, estimations), 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:14
# text = At their most generous and conservative estimates, D. D. Stynder et al. radiocarbon date SAM-AP 4692 to the mid-Holocene at 5448 and 5136 BCE (or 7457 and 7145 cal BP) respectively.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
4	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	conservative	conservative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	estimates	estimate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	D.	D.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	D.	D.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Stynder	Stynder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	et	et	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	nsubj	_	_
13	al.	al.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
14	radiocarbon	radiocarbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
16	SAM	SAM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	AP	AP	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	4692	4692	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mid-Holocene	mid-holocene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	5448	5448	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	5136	5136	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	conj	_	_
27	BCE	BCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	7457	7457	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	appos	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	7145	7145	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	conj	_	_
33	cal	cal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	BP	BP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
36	respectively	respectively	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **date** |  | et |  |  |  |  | SAM AP to the mid-Holocene at 5448  BCE *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **estimate** |  | estimations *= estimation* |  |  |  |  |  | nom estimate «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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