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title: 87.3% of households have piped water to the dwelling, while 12.0% ha… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: 87.3% of households have piped water to the dwelling, while 12.0% have piped water through a communal tap. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 279

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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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87.3% of households have piped water to the dwelling, while 12.0% have piped water through a communal tap.

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**What happens:** pipe · **To what, where:** water, 12.0 %, communal tap

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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:279
# text = 87.3% of households have piped water to the dwelling, while 12.0% have piped water through a communal tap.
1	87.3	87.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	households	household	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	piped	pipe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	12.0	12.0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	%	%	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	piped	pipe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	communal	communal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pipe** | present · perfect · passive |  | water |  |  |  | to the dwelling | tree rules |
| 2 | **pipe** | present · perfect · passive |  | 12.0 % |  | a communal tap |  | water *obj* | 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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