--- title: President Ramaphosa announced the changes in a speech to Parliament… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics description: President Ramaphosa announced the changes in a speech to Parliament in the same year, which marked the first time municipalities were allowed to buy energy from sources other than state-owned Eskom's monopolistic system. Who acts: President, same year, first time municipalities. 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President Ramaphosa announced the changes in a speech to Parliament in the same year, which marked the first time municipalities were allowed to buy energy from sources other than state-owned Eskom's monopolistic system. **Who acts:** President, same year, first time municipalities · **What happens:** announce, mark, allow, buy, own · **To what, where:** changes, speech, first time municipalities, energy, sources, monopolistic system 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 (President, same year, first time municipalities), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:737 # text = President Ramaphosa announced the changes in a speech to Parliament in the same year, which marked the first time municipalities were allowed to buy energy from sources other than state-owned Eskom's monopolistic system. 1 President President PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Ramaphosa Ramaphosa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 announced announce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Parliament Parliament PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 marked mark VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 21 amod _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 municipalities municipality NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 ccomp _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 sources source NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 30 than than SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 owned own VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 advcl _ _ 34 Eskom Eskom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 monopolistic monopolistic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | President | the changes | | a speech to Parliament | year | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme | | 2 | **mark** | past | the same year | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **allow** | past · passive | | the first time municipalities | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **buy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the first time municipalities *not said here* | energy | | sources | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent energy=Theme from source=Source | | 5 | **own** | participle | the first time municipalities *not said here* | Eskom's monopolistic system | | | | state *compound* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot system=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 736](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Town/736/) - next →: [sentence 738](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Town/738/) - ↑ back to [Cape Town](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Town/)