--- title: The consistently strong property prices and growth thereof can be at… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics description: The consistently strong property prices and growth thereof can be attributed to numerous factors, including good service delivery by local government, a strong local economy, the coastal lifestyle that Capetonians enjoy, and semigration (individuals moving from other South African provinces into the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Town/538/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Cape Town](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Town/) / 538 # Cape Town, sentence 538 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. The consistently strong property prices and growth thereof can be attributed to numerous factors, including good service delivery by local government, a strong local economy, the coastal lifestyle that Capetonians enjoy, and semigration (individuals moving from other South African provinces into the Western Cape). **Who acts:** Capetonians, semigration individuals, local government · **What happens:** attribute, enjoy, move, deliver · **To what, where:** strong property prices, coastal lifestyle, African provinces, other South 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 (Capetonians, semigration individuals, local government), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:538 # text = The consistently strong property prices and growth thereof can be attributed to numerous factors, including good service delivery by local government, a strong local economy, the coastal lifestyle that Capetonians enjoy, and semigration (individuals moving from other South African provinces into the Western Cape). 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 consistently consistently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 attributed attribute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 numerous numerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 factors factor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 including including ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 delivery delivery NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 economy economy NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 coastal coastal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 lifestyle lifestyle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 obj _ _ 33 Capetonians Capetonian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 enjoy enjoy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 semigration semigration NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 individuals individual NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 40 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 acl _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 provinces province NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 46 into into ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 Western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 Cape Cape PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attribute** | can · passive | | the strong property prices and growth | | | | to numerous factors; semigration individuals *obl*; good service delivery by local government and a strong local economy and the coastal lifestyle *parataxis* | tree rules | | 2 | **enjoy** | present | Capetonians | the coastal lifestyle | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | | 3 | **move** | gerund | semigration individuals *not said here* | African provinces | | other South | | into the Western Cape *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent province=Theme into cape=Result | | 4 | **deliver** | | local government | | | | | | nom delivery «act transitive»: by=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 537](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Town/537/) - next →: [sentence 539](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Town/539/) - ↑ back to [Cape Town](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Town/)