Bridgetown, sentence 47
From Wikipedia, «Bridgetown», 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 Corporation of Bridgetown thus ceased to exist, and its records and paraphernalia were deposited in both the Government Department of Archives and Barbados Museum and Historical Society.
Who acts: Corporation, Government Department · What happens: cease, exist, deposit, record · To what, where: records
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bridgetown». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Corporation, Government Department), 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 | 2 Corporation | det |
| 2 | Corporation | Corporation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ceased | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Bridgetown | case |
| 4 | Bridgetown | Bridgetown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Corporation | nmod |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 ceased | advmod |
| 6 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 exist | mark |
| 8 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ceased | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 deposited | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 deposited | cc |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 records | nmod:poss |
| 12 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 deposited | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 paraphernalia | cc |
| 14 | paraphernalia | paraphernalia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 records | conj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 deposited | aux:pass |
| 16 | deposited | deposit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ceased | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Department | case |
| 18 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 21 Department | cc:preconj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Department | det |
| 20 | Government | Government | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Department | compound |
| 21 | Department | Department | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 deposited | obl:agent |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Archives | case |
| 23 | Archives | Archive | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 Department | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Barbados | cc |
| 25 | Barbados | Barbados | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Department | conj |
| 26 | Museum | Museum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Barbados | flat |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Society | cc |
| 28 | Historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Society | amod |
| 29 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Department | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | the Corporation of Bridgetown | thus property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | exist | to-infinitive | the Corporation of Bridgetown not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | deposit | past · passive | the Government Department of Archives and Barbados and Historical Society | Corporation's records and paraphernalia | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | record | Corporation | nom record «communication transitive»: poss=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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