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title: Winter, which lasts from June to September, may see large cold front… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: Winter, which lasts from June to September, may see large cold fronts entering for limited periods from the Atlantic Ocean with significant precipitation and strong north-westerly winds. Who acts: Winter, large cold fronts. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Cape Town, sentence 151

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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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Winter, which lasts from June to September, may see large cold fronts entering for limited periods from the Atlantic Ocean with significant precipitation and strong north-westerly winds.

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**Who acts:** Winter, large cold fronts · **What happens:** last, see, enter · **To what, where:** large cold fronts

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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 (Winter, large cold fronts), 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:151
# text = Winter, which lasts from June to September, may see large cold fronts entering for limited periods from the Atlantic Ocean with significant precipitation and strong north-westerly winds.
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fronts	front	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	periods	period	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	precipitation	precipitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
28	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	westerly	westerly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | present | Winter |  |  |  | june; september |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | may | Winter | large cold fronts |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer front=Stimulus |
| 3 | **enter** | gerund | large cold fronts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for limited periods from the Atlantic Ocean; with significant precipitation and strong westerly winds | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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