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title: Many students use NSFAS funding to help pay for tertiary education a… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: Many students use NSFAS funding to help pay for tertiary education at these TVET colleges. Who acts: Many students. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 641

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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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Many students use NSFAS funding to help pay for tertiary education at these TVET colleges.

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**Who acts:** Many students · **What happens:** use, help, pay · **To what, where:** NSFAS funding, TVET colleges

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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 (Many students), 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:641
# text = Many students use NSFAS funding to help pay for tertiary education at these TVET colleges.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	NSFAS	NSFAS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	funding	funding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	tertiary	tertiary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	TVET	tvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	colleges	college	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Many students | NSFAS funding |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent funding=Patient |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | Many students *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | infinitive | Many students *not said here* |  |  | this TVET colleges |  | for tertiary education | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for education=Theme |

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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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