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title: Cape Town's property market grows at a rate far exceeding that of ot… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: Cape Town's property market grows at a rate far exceeding that of other major metropolitan areas in the country. Who acts: property market, Cape. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 518

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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's property market grows at a rate far exceeding that of other major metropolitan areas in the country.

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**Who acts:** property market, Cape · **What happens:** grow, exceed, market · **To what, where:** rate

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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 (property market, Cape), 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:518
# text = Cape Town's property market grows at a rate far exceeding that of other major metropolitan areas in the country.
1	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Cape's property market |  |  | a rate |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at rate=Location |
| 2 | **exceed** | gerund | Cape's property market *not said here* |  |  |  |  | other major metropolitan areas in the country *advcl*; far *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **market** |  | Cape |  |  |  |  |  | nom market «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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