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title: This penitentiary island was the site of a maximum security prison w… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: This penitentiary island was the site of a maximum security prison where many famous apartheid-era political prisoners served long prison sentences. Who acts: penitentiary island, many famous era political prisoners. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 66

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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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This penitentiary island was the site of a maximum security prison where many famous apartheid-era political prisoners served long prison sentences.

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**Who acts:** penitentiary island, many famous era political prisoners · **What happens:** be, serve · **To what, where:** site, long prison sentences

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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 (penitentiary island, many famous era political prisoners), 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:66
# text = This penitentiary island was the site of a maximum security prison where many famous apartheid-era political prisoners served long prison sentences.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	penitentiary	penitentiary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	maximum	maximum	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
14	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
15	apartheid	apartheid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	sentences	sentence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this penitentiary island | the site |  |  |  | of a maximum security prison | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | past | many famous era political prisoners | long prison sentences |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Attribute |

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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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