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title: These taxis make frequent unscheduled stops to pick up passengers, w… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: These taxis make frequent unscheduled stops to pick up passengers, which can cause accidents. Who acts: taxis, passengers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 916

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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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These taxis make frequent unscheduled stops to pick up passengers, which can cause accidents.

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**Who acts:** taxis, passengers · **What happens:** make, unschedul, stop, pick up, cause · **To what, where:** passengers, accidents

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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 (taxis, passengers), 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:916
# text = These taxis make frequent unscheduled stops to pick up passengers, which can cause accidents.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	taxis	taxi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	unscheduled	unschedul	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	csubj	_	_
6	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	accidents	accident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | this taxis |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material |
| 2 | **unschedul** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stop** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pick up** | to-infinitive |  | passengers |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passenger=Topic |
| 5 | **cause** | can | passengers | accidents |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition accident=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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