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title: Beaches located on the Atlantic Coast tend to have colder water due… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: Beaches located on the Atlantic Coast tend to have colder water due to the wind driven upwellings which contribute to the Benguela Current which originates off the Cape Peninsula, while the water at False Bay beaches may occasionally be warmer by up to 10 C-change at the same time in summer. Who act
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# Cape Town, sentence 172

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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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Beaches located on the Atlantic Coast tend to have colder water due to the wind driven upwellings which contribute to the Benguela Current which originates off the Cape Peninsula, while the water at False Bay beaches may occasionally be warmer by up to 10 C-change at the same time in summer.

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**Who acts:** Beaches, driven upwellings, Benguela Current, water · **What happens:** locate, tend, have, drive, contribute, originate · **To what, where:** Beaches, Atlantic Coast, colder water, Benguela Current

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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 (Beaches, driven upwellings, Benguela Current, water), 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:172
# text = Beaches located on the Atlantic Coast tend to have colder water due to the wind driven upwellings which contribute to the Benguela Current which originates off the Cape Peninsula, while the water at False Bay beaches may occasionally be warmer by up to 10 C-change at the same time in summer.
1	Beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Coast	Coast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	tend	tend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	upwellings	upwelling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	contribute	contribute	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Benguela	Benguela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	originates	originate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
31	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	False	False	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
38	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	cop	_	_
41	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	advcl	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
43	up	up	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
46	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | participle |  | Beaches *not said here* |  | the Atlantic Coast |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tend** | present | Beaches |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | Beaches *not said here* | colder water |  |  |  | due driven upwellings  the wind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 4 | **drive** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **contribute** | present | driven upwellings  the wind |  | the Benguela Current |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to current=Recipient |
| 6 | **originate** | present | the Benguela Current |  |  |  |  | off the Cape Peninsula | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | may | the water at Bay beaches |  |  |  |  | by 10 C change at the same time in summer; occasionally, warm *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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