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title: Crime in Cape Town in general is attributed to various factors, many… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: Crime in Cape Town in general is attributed to various factors, many of which are shared with other major South African metros. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 333

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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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Crime in Cape Town in general is attributed to various factors, many of which are shared with other major South African metros.

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**What happens:** attribute, share · **To what, where:** Crime, many

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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:333
# text = Crime in Cape Town in general is attributed to various factors, many of which are shared with other major South African metros.
1	Crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	factors	factor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nmod	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	metros	metro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attribute** | present · passive |  | Crime in Cape Town in general |  |  |  | to various factors | tree rules |
| 2 | **share** | present · passive |  | many |  |  |  | with other major South African metros | 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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