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title: British forces occupied the Cape again in 1806 following the Battle… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: British forces occupied the Cape again in 1806 following the Battle of Blaauwberg when the Batavian Republic allied with Britain's rival, France, during the Napoleonic Wars. Who acts: British forces, Batavian Republic. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 30

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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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British forces occupied the Cape again in 1806 following the Battle of Blaauwberg when the Batavian Republic allied with Britain's rival, France, during the Napoleonic Wars.

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**Who acts:** British forces, Batavian Republic · **What happens:** occupy, follow, ally · **To what, where:** Cape, 1806, Battle

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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 (British forces, Batavian Republic), 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:30
# text = British forces occupied the Cape again in 1806 following the Battle of Blaauwberg when the Batavian Republic allied with Britain's rival, France, during the Napoleonic Wars.
1	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1806	1806	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
9	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Blaauwberg	Blaauwberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Batavian	Batavian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	allied	ally	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	rival	rival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	during	during	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Napoleonic	Napoleonic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Wars	War	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occupy** | past | British forces | the Cape |  | 1806 | again |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cape=Experiencer |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  | the Battle of Blaauwberg |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme |
| 3 | **ally** | past | the Batavian Republic |  |  |  | during the Napoleonic Wars | with Britain's rival | vn conspire-71 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with rival=Co-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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