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title: Cape Town is also home to the headquarters of South Africa's largest… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: Cape Town is also home to the headquarters of South Africa's largest mass media corporation, and the country's third-largest listed company by annual revenue, Naspers. Who acts: Cape Town. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 437

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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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Cape Town is also home to the headquarters of South Africa's largest mass media corporation, and the country's third-largest listed company by annual revenue, Naspers.

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**Who acts:** Cape Town · **What happens:** be, list

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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 (Cape Town), 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:437
# text = Cape Town is also home to the headquarters of South Africa's largest mass media corporation, and the country's third-largest listed company by annual revenue, Naspers.
1	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
10	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
14	mass	mass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	corporation	corporation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
25	listed	list	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	revenue	revenue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Naspers	nasper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Cape Town |  |  |  |  | to the headquarters; of South Africa's largest mass media corporation; the country's third largest listed company by annual revenue and Naspers *nmod*; home *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **list** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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