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title: This was an increase of 36% from the average price of R1.63 million… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: This was an increase of 36% from the average price of R1.63 million in 2014 (a decade before), indicating consistently strong returns on investment for those in the Cape Town property market. Who acts: This. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 514

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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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This was an increase of 36% from the average price of R1.63 million in 2014 (a decade before), indicating consistently strong returns on investment for those in the Cape Town property market.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, indicate · **To what, where:** increase, strong returns, investment

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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 (This), 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:514
# text = This was an increase of 36% from the average price of R1.63 million in 2014 (a decade before), indicating consistently strong returns on investment for those in the Cape Town property market.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	36	36	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	R1.63	R1.63	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	decade	decade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
20	before	before	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	indicating	indicate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
24	consistently	consistently	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	returns	return	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | a increase |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **indicate** | gerund | This *not said here* | strong returns |  | investment for those in the Town property market |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot return=Topic |

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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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