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title: The program allows for Cape Town households to earn money for sellin… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: The program allows for Cape Town households to earn money for selling excess power they generate via solar panels back to the city's grid – a first for South Africa. Who acts: program, city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 745

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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 program allows for Cape Town households to earn money for selling excess power they generate via solar panels back to the city's grid – a first for South Africa.

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**Who acts:** program, city · **What happens:** allow, earn, sell, generate · **To what, where:** money, excess power, grid

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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 (program, city), 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:745
# text = The program allows for Cape Town households to earn money for selling excess power they generate via solar panels back to the city's grid – a first for South Africa.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	program	program	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	allows	allow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	households	household	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	excess	excess	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	generate	generate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	via	via	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	solar	solar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	panels	panel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	grid	grid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
26	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	parataxis	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | present | the program |  |  |  |  | for Town households *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for household=Goal |
| 2 | **earn** | to-infinitive | the program *not said here* | money |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 3 | **sell** | gerund | the program *not said here* | excess power | the city's grid |  |  | via solar panels | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent power=Theme to grid=Recipient |
| 4 | **generate** | present | city | excess power *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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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