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title: Although essential, these taxis are often poorly maintained and are… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: Although essential, these taxis are often poorly maintained and are frequently not road-worthy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 915

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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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Although essential, these taxis are often poorly maintained and are frequently not road-worthy.

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**What happens:** maintain, not be · **To what, where:** essential taxis

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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:915
# text = Although essential, these taxis are often poorly maintained and are frequently not road-worthy.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	essential	essential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	taxis	taxi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	poorly	poorly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
14	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **maintain** | present · passive |  | this essential taxis |  |  |  | often, poorly *property* | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | frequently, worthy *property* | 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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