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title: Cape Verdean cuisine is mostly based on fish and staple foods like c… — Cape Verde · tree and pragmatics
description: Cape Verdean cuisine is mostly based on fish and staple foods like corn and rice. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Verde» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Verde, sentence 342

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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 Verdean cuisine is mostly based on fish and staple foods like corn and rice.

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**What happens:** base · **To what, where:** Cape cuisine

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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: 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:342
# text = Cape Verdean cuisine is mostly based on fish and staple foods like corn and rice.
1	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Verdean	Verdean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	cuisine	cuisine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	staple	staple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **base** | present · passive |  | Cape cuisine |  |  |  | on fish and staple foods like corn and rice; mostly *property* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on fish=Source |

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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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