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title: Metrorail operates a commuter rail service in Cape Town and the surr… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: Metrorail operates a commuter rail service in Cape Town and the surrounding area. Who acts: Metrorail. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 841

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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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Metrorail operates a commuter rail service in Cape Town and the surrounding area.

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**Who acts:** Metrorail · **What happens:** operate · **To what, where:** rail service, Cape Town

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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 (Metrorail), 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:841
# text = Metrorail operates a commuter rail service in Cape Town and the surrounding area.
1	Metrorail	Metrorail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	operates	operate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	commuter	commuter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **operate** | present | Metrorail | a rail service and the surrounding area |  | Cape Town |  |  | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme service=Attribute |

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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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