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title: While the Atlantic Seaboard averages annual sea surface temperatures… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: While the Atlantic Seaboard averages annual sea surface temperatures average between 10 and 15 C, the False Bay coast is much warmer, averaging between 16 and 22 C annually. Who acts: Atlantic Seaboard, Bay coast. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 170

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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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While the Atlantic Seaboard averages annual sea surface temperatures average between 10 and 15 C, the False Bay coast is much warmer, averaging between 16 and 22 C annually.

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**Who acts:** Atlantic Seaboard, Bay coast · **What happens:** average, be · **To what, where:** annual surface temperatures

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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 (Atlantic Seaboard, Bay coast), 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:170
# text = While the Atlantic Seaboard averages annual sea surface temperatures average between 10 and 15 C, the False Bay coast is much warmer, averaging between 16 and 22 C annually.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Seaboard	Seaboard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	averages	average	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
6	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	False	False	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	much	much	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	averaging	average	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	between	between	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	conj	_	_
30	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:unmarked	_	_
31	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **average** | present | the Atlantic Seaboard | annual surface temperatures |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Bay coast |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **average** | gerund | the Bay coast *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between 16  C; annually *property* | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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