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title: The R304 enters the northern limits of the metro from Stellenbosch,… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: The R304 enters the northern limits of the metro from Stellenbosch, running north-north-west before veering west to cross the N7 at Philadelphia to end at Atlantis at a junction with the R307. Who acts: R304. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 861

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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 R304 enters the northern limits of the metro from Stellenbosch, running north-north-west before veering west to cross the N7 at Philadelphia to end at Atlantis at a junction with the R307.

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**Who acts:** R304 · **What happens:** enter, run, veer, cross, end · **To what, where:** northern limits, north west, N7, Philadelphia, Atlantis

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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 (R304), 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:861
# text = The R304 enters the northern limits of the metro from Stellenbosch, running north-north-west before veering west to cross the N7 at Philadelphia to end at Atlantis at a junction with the R307.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	R304	r304	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	enters	enter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	metro	metro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Stellenbosch	Stellenbosch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
14	north	north	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	veering	veer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
21	west	west	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	N7	N7	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Philadelphia	Philadelphia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Atlantis	Atlantis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	junction	junction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	R307	R307	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | present | the R304 | the northern limits of the metro from Stellenbosch |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme limit=Destination |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | the R304 *not said here* | north west |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **veer** | gerund | the R304 *not said here* |  |  |  |  | west *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cross** | to-infinitive | the R304 *not said here* | the N7 |  | Philadelphia |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent n7=Patient |
| 5 | **end** | to-infinitive | the R304 *not said here* |  |  | Atlantis |  | at a junction with the R307 | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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