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title: It was also one of the host cities of the 2009 Indian Premier League… — Cape Town · tree and pragmatics
description: It was also one of the host cities of the 2009 Indian Premier League cricket tournament. Who acts: profile. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Town» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Town, sentence 999

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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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It was also one of the host cities of the 2009 Indian Premier League cricket tournament.

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**Who acts:** profile · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** one

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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 (profile), 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:999
# text = It was also one of the host cities of the 2009 Indian Premier League cricket tournament.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
11	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	_
12	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	Premier	Premier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	cricket	cricket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tournament	tournament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | profile | one |  |  |  | of the host cities of the Indian League cricket tournament | 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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