Port-au-Prince, sentence 28
From Wikipedia, «Port-au-Prince», 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 population of the region was approximately 400,000 at the time, but the Taínos were gone within 30 years of the arrival of the Spaniards.
Who acts: population, Taínos, Spaniards · What happens: be, arrive · To what, where: 400,000
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port-au-Prince». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (population, Taínos, Spaniards), 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 population | det |
| 2 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 400,000 | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 region | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 region | det |
| 5 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 population | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 400,000 | cop |
| 7 | approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 8 400,000 | advmod |
| 8 | 400,000 | 400,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 400,000 | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gone | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 gone | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Taínos | det |
| 15 | Taínos | Taínos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 gone | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gone | cop |
| 17 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 400,000 | parataxis |
| 18 | within | within | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 19 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gone | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 arrival | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 arrival | det |
| 23 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 years | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Spaniards | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Spaniards | det |
| 26 | Spaniards | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 arrival | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 400,000 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the population of the region | 400,000 | time | approximately property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | past | the Taínos | year | gone property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | arrive | the Spaniards | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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