Port of Spain, sentence 27
From Wikipedia, «Port of Spain», 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.
But in 1690, Spanish governor Don Sebastien de Roteta reported in writing to the King of Spain.
Who acts: Don · What happens: report · To what, where: 1690
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 (Don), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 reported | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 1690 | case |
| 3 | 1690 | 1690 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 reported | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 1690 | punct |
| 5 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 governor | amod |
| 6 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Don | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 reported | nsubj |
| 8 | Sebastien | Sebastien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Don | flat |
| 9 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Don | flat |
| 10 | Roteta | Roteta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Don | flat |
| 11 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 writing | case |
| 13 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reported | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 King | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 writing | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Spain | case |
| 18 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 King | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past | Don Spanish governor | 1690 | in writing to the King of Spain | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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