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title: In the northern sector surface temperature varies a bit more (13 to… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: In the northern sector surface temperature varies a bit more (13 to 22 °C) than in the south (14 to 20 °C) during the year. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 178

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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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In the northern sector surface temperature varies a bit more (13 to 22 °C) than in the south (14 to 20 °C) during the year.

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**What happens:** vary · **To what, where:** more, northern surface temperature

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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: 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:178
# text = In the northern sector surface temperature varies a bit more (13 to 22 °C) than in the south (14 to 20 °C) during the year.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	varies	vary	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	obj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	°	°	SYM	SYM	_	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	C	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	appos	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	_
26	°	°	SYM	SYM	_	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	C	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
29	during	during	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vary** | present |  | more  a bit than the south |  | the northern surface temperature | year |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer more=Patient |

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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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