Caracas, sentence 37
From Wikipedia, «Caracas», 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 city was successful and operated on cacao and slave labor until the 1650s, when an alhorra blight, the Mexican Inquisition of many of their Portuguese traders, and increased cacao production in Guayaquil greatly affected the market.
Who acts: city, Mexican Inquisition, alhorra blight · What happens: be, operate, increase, affect · To what, where: cacao, cacao production, Guayaquil, market
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Caracas». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, Mexican Inquisition, alhorra blight), 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 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 successful | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 successful | cop |
| 4 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 operated | cc |
| 6 | operated | operate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 successful | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 cacao | case |
| 8 | cacao | cacao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 operated | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 labor | cc |
| 10 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 labor | compound |
| 11 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cacao | conj |
| 12 | until | until | ADP | _ | 14 1650s | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 1650s | det |
| 14 | 1650s | 1650 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 6 operated | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 affected | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 affected | advmod |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 blight | det |
| 18 | alhorra | alhorra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blight | compound |
| 19 | blight | blight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 affected | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Inquisition | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Inquisition | det |
| 22 | Mexican | Mexican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Inquisition | amod |
| 23 | Inquisition | Inquisition | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 blight | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 many | case |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Inquisition | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 traders | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 traders | nmod:poss |
| 28 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 traders | amod |
| 29 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 many | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 increased | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 increased | cc |
| 32 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Inquisition | acl:relcl |
| 33 | cacao | cacao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 production | compound |
| 34 | production | production | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 increased | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Guayaquil | case |
| 36 | Guayaquil | Guayaquil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 increased | obl |
| 37 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 38 affected | advmod |
| 38 | affected | affect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 successful | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 market | det |
| 40 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 affected | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 successful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the city | successful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | operate | participle | the city not said here | cacao and slave labor | until the 1650s | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | increase | past | the Mexican Inquisition not said here | cacao production | Guayaquil | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer production=Patient | |||
| 4 | affect | past | a alhorra blight | the market | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus market=Experiencer |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Caracas», 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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