Port-au-Prince, sentence 53
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.
While the first French presence in Hôpital, the region later to contain Port-au-Prince was that of the flibustiers; as the region became a real French colony, the colonial administration began to worry about the continual presence of these pirates.
Who acts: Port, region, colonial administration · What happens: contain, be, become, begin, worry · To what, where: real French colony
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 (Port, region, colonial administration), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 presence | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 presence | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 presence | amod |
| 4 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 presence | amod |
| 5 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 contain | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Hôpital | case |
| 7 | Hôpital | Hôpital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 presence | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 presence | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 region | det |
| 10 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 later | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 contain | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 contain | mark |
| 13 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 flibustiers | nsubj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Port | punct |
| 16 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Port | flat |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Prince | punct |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Port | conj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 flibustiers | cop |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 flibustiers | mark |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 flibustiers | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 flibustiers | det |
| 23 | flibustiers | flibustier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 contain | parataxis |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 became | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 became | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 region | det |
| 27 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 became | nsubj |
| 28 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 contain | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 colony | det |
| 30 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 colony | amod |
| 31 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 colony | amod |
| 32 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 became | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 began | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 administration | det |
| 35 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 administration | amod |
| 36 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 began | nsubj |
| 37 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 became | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 worry | mark |
| 39 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 began | xcomp |
| 40 | about | about | ADP | _ | 43 presence | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 presence | det |
| 42 | continual | continual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 presence | amod |
| 43 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 worry | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 pirates | case |
| 45 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 46 pirates | det |
| 46 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 presence | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 contain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | to-infinitive | the first French presence in Hôpital advcl; late property | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Port and Prince | of the flibustiers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the region | a real French colony | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | the colonial administration | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | worry | to-infinitive | the colonial administration not said here | about the continual presence of this pirates | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about presence=Stimulus |
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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