Port-au-Prince, sentence 29
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.
With the arrival of the Spaniards, the Amerindians were forced to accept a protectorate, and Bohechio, childless at death, was succeeded by his sister, Anacaona, wife of the cacique Caonabo.
Who acts: Amerindians, sister, Spaniards · What happens: force, accept, succeed, arrive · To what, where: Amerindians, protectorate, Bohechio
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 (Amerindians, sister, 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 arrival | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 arrival | det |
| 3 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forced | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Spaniards | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Spaniards | det |
| 6 | Spaniards | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 arrival | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrival | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Amerindians | det |
| 9 | Amerindians | Amerindian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 forced | aux:pass |
| 11 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 accept | mark |
| 13 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 forced | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 protectorate | det |
| 15 | protectorate | protectorate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 accept | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 succeeded | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 succeeded | cc |
| 18 | Bohechio | Bohechio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 succeeded | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 childless | punct |
| 20 | childless | childless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Bohechio | amod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 childless | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Bohechio | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 succeeded | aux:pass |
| 25 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 forced | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 sister | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 sister | nmod:poss |
| 28 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 succeeded | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Anacaona | punct |
| 30 | Anacaona | Anacaona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 sister | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wife | punct |
| 32 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sister | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 cacique | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 cacique | det |
| 35 | cacique | cacique | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wife | nmod |
| 36 | Caonabo | Caonabo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 cacique | appos |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past · passive | the Amerindians | with the arrival of the Spaniards | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | accept | to-infinitive | the Amerindians not said here | a protectorate | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protectorate=Theme | ||||
| 3 | succeed | past · passive | Bohechio's sister and wife of the cacique | Bohechio | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | 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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