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title: Formerly multi-racial suburbs of Cape Town were either purged of res… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
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# Cape Town, sentence 54

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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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Formerly multi-racial suburbs of Cape Town were either purged of residents deemed unlawful by apartheid legislation, or demolished.

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**What happens:** purge, deem, demolish · **To what, where:** multi-racial suburbs, residents

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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: 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:54
# text = Formerly multi-racial suburbs of Cape Town were either purged of residents deemed unlawful by apartheid legislation, or demolished.
1	Formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	multi-racial	multi-racial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	purged	purge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	deemed	deem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	unlawful	unlawful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	apartheid	apartheid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	legislation	legislation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	demolished	demolish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **purge** | past · passive |  | multi-racial suburbs of Cape Town |  |  |  | of residents; either *property* | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source of resident=Theme |
| 2 | **deem** | participle |  | residents *not said here* |  |  |  | by apartheid legislation; unlawful *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **demolish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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