Port of Spain, sentence 19
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The name Conquerabia is also recorded for an Amerindian settlement in this area; this may have been a separate village, another name for Cumucurapo, or the result of miscomprehension by early Spanish settlers, who established a port here: Puerto de los Españoles, later Puerto de España.
Who acts: this, early Spanish settlers · What happens: record, be, establish, result · To what, where: name, separate village, port, miscomprehension
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port of Spain». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, early Spanish settlers), 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 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recorded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Conquerabia | Conquerabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 name | appos |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 recorded | aux:pass |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 recorded | advmod |
| 6 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 settlement | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 settlement | det |
| 9 | Amerindian | amerindian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 settlement | amod |
| 10 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recorded | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 area | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 area | det |
| 13 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 settlement | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 village | punct |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 village | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 village | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 village | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 village | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 village | det |
| 20 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 village | amod |
| 21 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recorded | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 name | punct |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 name | det |
| 24 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 village | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 Cumucurapo | case |
| 26 | Cumucurapo | Cumucurapo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 name | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 result | punct |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 result | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 result | det |
| 30 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 village | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 miscomprehension | case |
| 32 | miscomprehension | miscomprehension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 result | nmod |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 settlers | case |
| 34 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 settlers | amod |
| 35 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 settlers | amod |
| 36 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 result | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 established | punct |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 established | nsubj |
| 39 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 settlers | acl:relcl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 port | det |
| 41 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 established | obj |
| 42 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 established | advmod |
| 43 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 44 Puerto | punct |
| 44 | Puerto | Puerto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 recorded | parataxis |
| 45 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Puerto | flat |
| 46 | los | Los | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Puerto | conj |
| 47 | Españoles | Españoles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 los | flat |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 Puerto | punct |
| 49 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 50 Puerto | advmod |
| 50 | Puerto | Puerto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Puerto | conj |
| 51 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Puerto | flat |
| 52 | España | España | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Puerto | flat |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 recorded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | present · passive | the name | for a Amerindian settlement in this area; Puerto and los and Puerto parataxis | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | may · perfect | this | a separate village and another name for Cumucurapo | another name for Cumucurapo conj; the result of miscomprehension by early Spanish settlers appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | establish | past | early Spanish settlers | a port | here | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent port=Patient | |||
| 4 | result | early Spanish settlers | miscomprehension | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient by=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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