Grenada, sentence 85
From Wikipedia, «Grenada», 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.
On 16 October 1983, Bernard Coard and his wife, Phyllis Coard, backed by the Grenadian Army, led a coup against the government of Maurice Bishop and placed Bishop under house arrest.
What happens: back, lead, place · To what, where: Bernard, coup, government, Bishop, house arrest
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Grenada». 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 October | case |
| 2 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 October | nummod |
| 3 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 led | obl |
| 4 | 1983 | 1983 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 October | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bernard | punct |
| 6 | Bernard | Bernard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 October | conj |
| 7 | Coard | Coard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bernard | flat |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wife | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Bernard | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Phyllis | punct |
| 12 | Phyllis | Phyllis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bernard | conj |
| 13 | Coard | Coard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Phyllis | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 backed | punct |
| 15 | backed | back | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Bernard | acl:relcl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Army | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Army | det |
| 18 | Grenadian | Grenadian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Army | compound |
| 19 | Army | Army | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 backed | obl:agent |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 October | punct |
| 21 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 coup | det |
| 23 | coup | coup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 led | obj |
| 24 | against | against | ADP | _ | 26 government | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 government | det |
| 26 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 led | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Maurice | case |
| 28 | Maurice | Maurice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 government | nmod |
| 29 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Maurice | flat |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 placed | cc |
| 31 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 led | conj |
| 32 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 placed | obj |
| 33 | under | under | ADP | _ | 35 arrest | case |
| 34 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 arrest | compound |
| 35 | arrest | arrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 placed | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | back | participle | Bernard and Bernard's wife and Phyllis not said here | the Grenadian Army obl:agent | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | a coup | the government of Maurice | october | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coup=Theme against government=Destination | |||
| 3 | place | participle | Bishop | house arrest | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bishop=Theme under arrest=Destination |
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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