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title: While Metro Police can and do also provide traffic-related enforceme… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: While Metro Police can and do also provide traffic-related enforcement, the Traffic Service focuses entirely on such. Who acts: related enforcement. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 668

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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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While Metro Police can and do also provide traffic-related enforcement, the Traffic Service focuses entirely on such.

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**Who acts:** related enforcement · **What happens:** provide, focus

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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 (related enforcement), 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:668
# text = While Metro Police can and do also provide traffic-related enforcement, the Traffic Service focuses entirely on such.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Metro	Metro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	provide	provide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	enforcement	enforcement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Traffic	Traffic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Service	Service	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	focuses	focus	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
18	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | can · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | while Metro Police | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **focus** | present | related enforcement |  |  |  |  | on such; the Traffic Service *nsubj*; entirely *property* | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on such=Topic |

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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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