Barbados, sentence 46
From Wikipedia, «Barbados», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The first colonists were actually tenants, and much of the profits of their labour returned to Courten and his company.
Who acts: first colonists, tenants, labour · What happens: be, return, profit · To what, where: tenants, Courten
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Barbados». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first colonists, tenants, labour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 colonists | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 colonists | amod |
| 3 | colonists | colonist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tenants | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tenants | cop |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 6 tenants | advmod |
| 6 | tenants | tenant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 returned | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 much | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 much | cc |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tenants | amod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 profits | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 profits | det |
| 12 | profits | profit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 much | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 labour | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 labour | nmod:poss |
| 15 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 profits | nmod |
| 16 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Courten | case |
| 18 | Courten | Courten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 returned | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 company | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 company | nmod:poss |
| 21 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Courten | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the first colonists | tenants | actually property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | return | past | tenants | Courten and merchant's company | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to courten=Result | ||||
| 3 | profit | tenants's labour | nom profit «possession intransitive»: of=agent |
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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