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title: Since July 2019 widespread violent crime in poorer gang dominated ar… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: Since July 2019 widespread violent crime in poorer gang dominated areas of greater Cape Town has resulted in an ongoing military presence in these neighbourhoods. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 359

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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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Since July 2019 widespread violent crime in poorer gang dominated areas of greater Cape Town has resulted in an ongoing military presence in these neighbourhoods.

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**What happens:** dominate, result · **To what, where:** dominated areas, ongoing military presence, 2019 widespread violent crime

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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:359
# text = Since July 2019 widespread violent crime in poorer gang dominated areas of greater Cape Town has resulted in an ongoing military presence in these neighbourhoods.
1	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
4	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	poorer	poor	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	dominated	dominate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
14	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	ongoing	ongoing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	neighbourhoods	neighbourhood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dominate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **result** | present · perfect |  | dominated areas *not said here* |  | a ongoing military presence in this neighbourhoods |  | of greater Cape Town | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in presence=Location |

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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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