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title: The Convict Crisis of 1849, marked by substantial civil upheaval, bo… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: The Convict Crisis of 1849, marked by substantial civil upheaval, bolstered the push for self-governance in the Cape. Who acts: substantial civil upheaval. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 34

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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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The Convict Crisis of 1849, marked by substantial civil upheaval, bolstered the push for self-governance in the Cape.

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**Who acts:** substantial civil upheaval · **What happens:** mark, bolster · **To what, where:** Convict Crisis, push

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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 (substantial civil upheaval), 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:34
# text = The Convict Crisis of 1849, marked by substantial civil upheaval, bolstered the push for self-governance in the Cape.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Convict	convict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Crisis	Crisis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1849	1849	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	substantial	substantial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	upheaval	upheaval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bolstered	bolster	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	governance	governance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | participle |  | the Convict Crisis of 1849 *not said here* |  |  |  | by substantial civil upheaval | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent by upheaval=Destination |
| 2 | **bolster** | participle | substantial civil upheaval *not said here* | the push |  |  |  | for self governance in the Cape | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot push=Theme |

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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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