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title: The three main rock formations are the late-Precambrian Malmesbury g… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: The three main rock formations are the late-Precambrian Malmesbury group (sedimentary and metamorphic rock), the Cape Granite suit, comprising the huge Peninsula, Kuilsrivier-Helderberg, and Stellenbosch batholiths, that were intruded into the Malmesbury Group about 630 million years ago, and the Ta
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# Cape Town, sentence 143

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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 three main rock formations are the late-Precambrian Malmesbury group (sedimentary and metamorphic rock), the Cape Granite suit, comprising the huge Peninsula, Kuilsrivier-Helderberg, and Stellenbosch batholiths, that were intruded into the Malmesbury Group about 630 million years ago, and the Table Mountain group sandstones that were deposited on the eroded surface of the granite and Malmesbury series basement about 450 million years ago.

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**Who acts:** three main rock formations, Malmesbury · **What happens:** be, comprise, stellenbosch, intrude, deposit, erode · **To what, where:** late Malmesbury group, huge Peninsula, batholiths, Malmesbury Group, Mountain group sandstones, eroded surface

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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 (three main rock formations, Malmesbury), 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:143
# text = The three main rock formations are the late-Precambrian Malmesbury group (sedimentary and metamorphic rock), the Cape Granite suit, comprising the huge Peninsula, Kuilsrivier-Helderberg, and Stellenbosch batholiths, that were intruded into the Malmesbury Group about 630 million years ago, and the Table Mountain group sandstones that were deposited on the eroded surface of the granite and Malmesbury series basement about 450 million years ago.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	formations	formation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Precambrian	Precambrian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Malmesbury	Malmesbury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	sedimentary	sedimentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	appos	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	metamorphic	metamorphic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Granite	Granite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	comprising	comprise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	appos	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Kuilsrivier	Kuilsrivier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Helderberg	Helderberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	Stellenbosch	stellenbosch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
36	batholiths	batholith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	intruded	intrude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl:relcl	_	_
41	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	Malmesbury	Malmesbury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	Group	Group	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	about	about	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
46	630	630	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	47	compound	_	_
47	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl:unmarked	_	_
49	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
53	Table	Table	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
55	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	sandstones	sandstone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
57	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	59	nsubj	_	_
58	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux:pass	_	_
59	deposited	deposit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	acl:relcl	_	_
60	on	on	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
62	eroded	erode	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	63	amod	_	_
63	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	granite	granite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	_
67	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
68	Malmesbury	Malmesbury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	69	nsubj	_	_
69	series	sery	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	conj	_	_
70	basement	basement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	obj	_	_
71	about	about	ADV	RB	_	73	advmod	_	_
72	450	450	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	73	compound	_	_
73	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	74	nummod	_	_
74	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	75	obl:unmarked	_	_
75	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	69	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the three main rock formations | the late Malmesbury group and the Granite suit |  |  |  | the Granite suit *conj*; the Mountain group sandstones *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **comprise** | gerund |  | the huge Peninsula |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme peninsula=Pivot |
| 3 | **stellenbosch** | infinitive |  | batholiths |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **intrude** | past · passive |  | batholiths |  | the Malmesbury Group |  | ago *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **deposit** | past · passive |  | the Mountain group sandstones |  | the eroded surface of the granite |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on surface=Destination |
| 6 | **erode** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **sery** | present | Malmesbury | basement |  |  |  | ago *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, «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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