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title: The northern and eastern sections of the city was the scene of the 2… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: The northern and eastern sections of the city was the scene of the 2021 Cape Town taxi conflict, a violent turf war which led to 83 deaths. Who acts: northern sections, violent turf war. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 341

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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 northern and eastern sections of the city was the scene of the 2021 Cape Town taxi conflict, a violent turf war which led to 83 deaths.

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**Who acts:** northern sections, violent turf war · **What happens:** be, lead, section · **To what, where:** scene, city

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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 (northern sections, violent turf war), 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:341
# text = The northern and eastern sections of the city was the scene of the 2021 Cape Town taxi conflict, a violent turf war which led to 83 deaths.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	sections	section	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
14	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	taxi	taxi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	turf	turf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	83	83	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the northern sections of the city | the scene |  |  |  | of the Town taxi conflict; a violent turf war *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | past | a violent turf war |  |  |  |  | to 83 deaths | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to death=Patient |
| 3 | **section** |  |  | the city |  |  |  |  | nom section «communication transitive»: of=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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