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title: A procurement agreement has been signed with Volvo Bus Southern Afri… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: A procurement agreement has been signed with Volvo Bus Southern Africa for electric buses, with initial deliveries scheduled for 2027. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 899

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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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A procurement agreement has been signed with Volvo Bus Southern Africa for electric buses, with initial deliveries scheduled for 2027.

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**What happens:** sign, schedule · **To what, where:** procurement agreement, initial deliveries

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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: 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:899
# text = A procurement agreement has been signed with Volvo Bus Southern Africa for electric buses, with initial deliveries scheduled for 2027.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	procurement	procurement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	signed	sign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Volvo	Volvo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
9	Bus	Bus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	11	flat	_	_
11	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	initial	initial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	deliveries	delivery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
19	scheduled	schedule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	2027	2027	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** | present · perfect · passive |  | a procurement agreement |  |  |  | with Volvo Southern Africa; for electric buses; initial deliveries *conj* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with africa=Theme |
| 2 | **schedule** | participle |  | initial deliveries *not said here* |  |  |  | for 2027 | tree rules |

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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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