---
title: The annual Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, also known by its Afrikaans… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: The annual Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, also known by its Afrikaans name of Kaapse Klopse, is a large minstrel festival held annually on 2 January or "Tweede Nuwe Jaar" (Second New Year). Who acts: annual Minstrel Carnival, Carnival. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Town/927/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Cape Town](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Town/) / 927

# Cape Town, sentence 927

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The annual Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, also known by its Afrikaans name of Kaapse Klopse, is a large minstrel festival held annually on 2 January or "Tweede Nuwe Jaar" (Second New Year).

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** annual Minstrel Carnival, Carnival · **What happens:** know, be, hold, name · **To what, where:** annual Minstrel Carnival, large minstrel festival, Kaapse

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (annual Minstrel Carnival, Carnival), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:927
# text = The annual Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, also known by its Afrikaans name of Kaapse Klopse, is a large minstrel festival held annually on 2 January or "Tweede Nuwe Jaar" (Second New Year).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Carnival	Carnival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Afrikaans	afrikaans	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Kaapse	Kaapse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	Klopse	Klopse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
23	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Tweede	Tweede	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	Nuwe	Nuwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
32	Jaar	Jaar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Second	Second	PROPN	NNP	_	37	compound	_	_
36	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | the annual Minstrel Carnival *not said here* |  |  |  | by Carnival's Afrikaans name of Kaapse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the annual Minstrel Carnival | a large minstrel festival |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | participle |  | a large minstrel festival *not said here* |  |  | january | annually *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **name** |  | Carnival | Kaapse |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 926](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Town/926/)
- next →: [sentence 928](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Town/928/)
- ↑ back to [Cape Town](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Town/)