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title: Notably rooikrans was introduced to stabilise the sand of the Cape F… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: Notably rooikrans was introduced to stabilise the sand of the Cape Flats to allow for a road connecting the peninsula with the rest of the African continent and eucalyptus was used to drain marshes. Who acts: road. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 38

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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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Notably rooikrans was introduced to stabilise the sand of the Cape Flats to allow for a road connecting the peninsula with the rest of the African continent and eucalyptus was used to drain marshes.

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**Who acts:** road · **What happens:** introduce, stabilise, allow, connect, use, drain · **To what, where:** rooikrans, sand, peninsula, road, marshes

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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 (road), 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:38
# text = Notably rooikrans was introduced to stabilise the sand of the Cape Flats to allow for a road connecting the peninsula with the rest of the African continent and eucalyptus was used to drain marshes.
1	Notably	notably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	rooikrans	rooikran	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	stabilise	stabilise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Flats	Flat	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	connecting	connect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	eucalyptus	eucalyptus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	drain	drain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
34	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **introduce** | past · passive |  | rooikrans |  |  |  | notably *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stabilise** | to-infinitive |  | the sand of the Cape Flats |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **allow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **connect** | gerund | a road *not said here* | the peninsula |  |  |  | with the rest of the African continent and eucalyptus | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent peninsula=Patient with rest=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **use** | past · passive |  | a road |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **drain** | to-infinitive |  | marshes |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent marsh=Source |

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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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