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title: These act as terminals for the inter-island ferry services, which ca… — Cape Verde · tree and pragmatics
description: These act as terminals for the inter-island ferry services, which carry both freight and passengers. Who acts: These, island ferry services. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Verde» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Verde, sentence 366

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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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These act as terminals for the inter-island ferry services, which carry both freight and passengers.

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**Who acts:** These, island ferry services · **What happens:** act, carry · **To what, where:** freight

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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 (These, island ferry services), 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:366
# text = These act as terminals for the inter-island ferry services, which carry both freight and passengers.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	act	act	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	terminals	terminal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	inter	inter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	ferry	ferry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	freight	freight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | present | These |  |  |  |  | as terminals; for the island ferry services | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as terminal=Attribute |
| 2 | **carry** | present | the island ferry services | both freight and passengers |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freight=Theme |

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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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