Dominica, sentence 53
From Wikipedia, «Dominica», 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.
In 1763, France lost the war and ceded the island to Great Britain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris.
Who acts: France · What happens: lose, cede · To what, where: war, 1763, island, Great Britain
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dominica». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (France), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1763 | case |
| 2 | 1763 | 1763 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 lost | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1763 | punct |
| 4 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | nsubj |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 war | det |
| 7 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ceded | cc |
| 9 | ceded | cede | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ceded | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Britain | case |
| 13 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Britain | flat |
| 14 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 island | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1763 | case |
| 16 | 1763 | 1763 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 ceded | obl |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 Treaty | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Treaty | det |
| 19 | Treaty | Treaty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ceded | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Paris | case |
| 21 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Treaty | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | France | the war | 1763 | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | cede | past | France not said here | the island | Great Britain | 1763 | under the Treaty of Paris | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent island=Theme to britain=Goal |
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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