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title: The N2 begins at the foreshore area near the Cape Town city centre a… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: The N2 begins at the foreshore area near the Cape Town city centre and runs east-south-east through Mowbray, Khayelitsha, Macassar and Somerset West before leaving the municipality as the Sir Lowry's Pass, connecting with coastal cities to the east, including Mossel Bay, George, Port Elizabeth, East
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# Cape Town, sentence 847

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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 N2 begins at the foreshore area near the Cape Town city centre and runs east-south-east through Mowbray, Khayelitsha, Macassar and Somerset West before leaving the municipality as the Sir Lowry's Pass, connecting with coastal cities to the east, including Mossel Bay, George, Port Elizabeth, East London and Durban.

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**Who acts:** N2 · **What happens:** begin, run, leave, connect · **To what, where:** foreshore area, south east, Mowbray, municipality, Mossel Bay

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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 (N2), 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:847
# text = The N2 begins at the foreshore area near the Cape Town city centre and runs east-south-east through Mowbray, Khayelitsha, Macassar and Somerset West before leaving the municipality as the Sir Lowry's Pass, connecting with coastal cities to the east, including Mossel Bay, George, Port Elizabeth, East London and Durban.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	N2	n2	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	foreshore	foreshore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	east	east	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Mowbray	Mowbray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Khayelitsha	Khayelitsha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Macassar	Macassar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Somerset	Somerset	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
29	West	west	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	municipality	municipality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:desc	_	_
37	Lowry	Lowry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	Pass	Pass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	connecting	connect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	conj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	including	including	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	Mossel	Mossel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	Elizabeth	Elizabeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
58	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	_
59	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	flat	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	Durban	Durban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | present | the N2 |  |  | the foreshore area near the Town city centre |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **run** | present | the N2 *not said here* | south east |  | Mowbray and Khayelitsha and Macassar and Somerset |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent east=Theme through mowbray=Trajectory |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | the N2 *not said here* | the municipality |  |  |  | as the Lowry  Sir's Pass; west *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent municipality=Theme |
| 4 | **connect** | gerund | the N2 *not said here* | Mossel Bay |  |  |  | with coastal cities; to the east | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bay=Patient with city=Instrument to east=Co-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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