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title: The drones are equipped with infrared cameras, and can detect body h… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: The drones are equipped with infrared cameras, and can detect body heat in cold water, trace residual heat from discharged firearms, and capture the thermal signatures of high-speed vehicles. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 708

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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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The drones are equipped with infrared cameras, and can detect body heat in cold water, trace residual heat from discharged firearms, and capture the thermal signatures of high-speed vehicles.

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**What happens:** equip, detect, trace, discharge, capture, sign · **To what, where:** drones, body heat, cold water, residual heat, discharged firearms, thermal signatures

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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:708
# text = The drones are equipped with infrared cameras, and can detect body heat in cold water, trace residual heat from discharged firearms, and capture the thermal signatures of high-speed vehicles.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drones	drone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	equipped	equip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	infrared	infrared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	detect	detect	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	trace	trace	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	residual	residual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	discharged	discharge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	firearms	firearm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	capture	capture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	thermal	thermal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	signatures	signature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	vehicles	vehicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **equip** | present · passive |  | the drones |  |  |  | with infrared cameras | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with camera=Theme |
| 2 | **detect** | can |  | body heat |  | cold water |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer heat=Stimulus |
| 3 | **trace** | present |  | residual heat |  | discharged firearms |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
| 4 | **discharge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **capture** | infinitive |  | the thermal signatures of speed vehicles |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signature=Theme |
| 6 | **sign** |  |  | speed vehicles |  |  |  |  | nom signature «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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