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title: At this time the drainage outlets lay between Rocky Bank Cape Point… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: At this time the drainage outlets lay between Rocky Bank Cape Point to the west, and between Rocky Bank and Hangklip Ridge to the east, with the watershed roughly along the line of the contact zone east of Seal Island and Whittle Rock. Who acts: drainage outlets. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town
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# Cape Town, sentence 149

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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 this time the drainage outlets lay between Rocky Bank Cape Point to the west, and between Rocky Bank and Hangklip Ridge to the east, with the watershed roughly along the line of the contact zone east of Seal Island and Whittle Rock.

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**Who acts:** drainage outlets · **What happens:** lay

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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 (drainage outlets), 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:149
# text = At this time the drainage outlets lay between Rocky Bank Cape Point to the west, and between Rocky Bank and Hangklip Ridge to the east, with the watershed roughly along the line of the contact zone east of Seal Island and Whittle Rock.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	drainage	drainage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	outlets	outlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Rocky	Rocky	PROPN	NNP	_	10	compound	_	_
10	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Point	Point	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	between	between	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Rocky	Rocky	PROPN	NNP	_	20	compound	_	_
20	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	Hangklip	Hangklip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Ridge	Ridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	watershed	watershed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
31	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	along	along	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
38	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	Seal	Seal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	Whittle	Whittle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	Rock	Rock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | the drainage outlets |  |  |  | time | between Rocky Bank and Cape Point; to the west; between Rocky Bank and Hangklip Ridge; to the east; the watershed along the line of the contact zone east of Seal Island and Whittle Rock *parataxis* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between bank=Destination |

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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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