---
title: The city derives its main undersea connectivity from West African ca… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: The city derives its main undersea connectivity from West African cable routes, such as WACS, Equiano, and SACS, as well as Pan African cables like 2africa. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Town/603/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 603

# Cape Town, sentence 603

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The city derives its main undersea connectivity from West African cable routes, such as WACS, Equiano, and SACS, as well as Pan African cables like 2africa.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** derive · **To what, where:** main undersea connectivity, West African cable routes

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (city), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:603
# text = The city derives its main undersea connectivity from West African cable routes, such as WACS, Equiano, and SACS, as well as Pan African cables like 2africa.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	derives	derive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	undersea	undersea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	connectivity	connectivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
10	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	routes	route	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	WACS	wac	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Equiano	Equiano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	SACS	sac	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	28	cc	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	fixed	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
26	Pan	Pan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	cables	cable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	africa	africa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **derive** | present | the city | connectivity's main undersea connectivity |  | West African cable routes  Equiano and WACS |  | SACS  Pan African cables like 2 africa *obl* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent connectivity=Result from route=Material |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 602](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Town/602/)
- next →: [sentence 604](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Town/604/)
- ↑ back to [Cape Town](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Town/)