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title: Cape Verde, also referred to in English by its Portuguese name Cabo… — Cape Verde · tree and pragmatics
description: Cape Verde, also referred to in English by its Portuguese name Cabo Verde, and known officially as the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelagic country in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of West Africa. Who acts: Cape, its. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Verde» with its dependency tree 
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# Cape Verde, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«Cape Verde»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde), 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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Cape Verde, also referred to in English by its Portuguese name Cabo Verde, and known officially as the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelagic country in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of West Africa.

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**Who acts:** Cape, its · **What happens:** refer, know, be, name · **To what, where:** Cape, English, archipelagic country, eastern Atlantic Ocean

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cape Verde». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cape, its), 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_Verde:1
# text = Cape Verde, also referred to in English by its Portuguese name Cabo Verde, and known officially as the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelagic country in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of West Africa.
1	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
2	Verde	Verde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	Cabo	Cabo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Verde	Verde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
18	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Cabo	Cabo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Verde	Verde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	archipelagic	archipelagic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	off	off	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | participle |  | Cape *not said here* |  | English |  | by its Portuguese name | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as the Republic of Cabo Verde; officially *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as republic=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Cape | a archipelagic country and the coast of West Africa |  | the eastern Atlantic Ocean |  | the coast of West Africa *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  | its *= it* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Verde», 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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