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title: In late 2017, there were first mentions of plans for "Day Zero", a s… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: In late 2017, there were first mentions of plans for "Day Zero", a shorthand reference for the day when the water level of the major dams supplying the city could fall below 13.5 percent. " Who acts: first mentions, major dams, water level. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency t
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# Cape Town, sentence 775

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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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In late 2017, there were first mentions of plans for "Day Zero", a shorthand reference for the day when the water level of the major dams supplying the city could fall below 13.5 percent. "

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**Who acts:** first mentions, major dams, water level · **What happens:** be, supply, fall, mention · **To what, where:** late 2017, city, 13.5 percent, plans

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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 (first mentions, major dams, water level), 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:775
# text = In late 2017, there were first mentions of plans for "Day Zero", a shorthand reference for the day when the water level of the major dams supplying the city could fall below 13.5 percent. "
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	mentions	mention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Zero	Zero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	shorthand	shorthand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	dams	dam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	supplying	supply	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
36	below	below	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	13.5	13.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | first mentions of plans for Day Zero |  |  | late 2017; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2017=Location |
| 2 | **supply** | gerund | the major dams *not said here* | the city |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Recipient |
| 3 | **fall** | could | the water level of the major dams | 13.5 percent |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient percent=Result |
| 4 | **mention** |  |  | plans for Day Zero |  |  |  |  | nom mention «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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