Dominica, sentence 65
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.
They were recorded as recaptured and punished with 100 lashes applied to the males and 50 for the females.
What happens: record, recapture, punish, apply · To what, where: slaves, 100 lashes
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: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 recorded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 recorded | aux:pass |
| 3 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 recaptured | mark |
| 5 | recaptured | recapture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 recorded | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 punished | cc |
| 7 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 recorded | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 lashes | case |
| 9 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 lashes | nummod |
| 10 | lashes | lash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 punished | obl |
| 11 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lashes | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 males | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 males | det |
| 14 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 applied | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 50 | cc |
| 16 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 males | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 females | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 females | det |
| 19 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 applied | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 recorded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | past · passive | slaves = slave | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | recapture | participle | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | punish | participle | with 100 lashes | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent with lash=Theme | |||||
| 4 | apply | participle | 100 lashes not said here | to the males; for the females | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for female=Eventuality |
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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