Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 30
From Wikipedia, «Trinidad and Tobago», 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.
He attacked San José, captured and interrogated Antonio de Berrío, and obtained much information from him and from the Cacique Topiawari; Raleigh then went on his way, and Spanish authority was restored.
Who acts: pirate, Raleigh · What happens: attack, capture, interrogate, obtain, go, restore · To what, where: San, Antonio, much information, way, Spanish authority
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Trinidad and Tobago». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pirate, Raleigh), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 attacked | nsubj |
| 2 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 attacked | obj |
| 4 | José | José | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 San | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 captured | punct |
| 6 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 San | acl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 interrogated | cc |
| 8 | interrogated | interrogate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 captured | conj |
| 9 | Antonio | Antonio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 interrogated | obj |
| 10 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Antonio | flat |
| 11 | Berrío | Berrío | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Antonio | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 obtained | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 obtained | cc |
| 14 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 attacked | conj |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 information | amod |
| 16 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 obtained | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 obtained | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Topiawari | cc |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Topiawari | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Topiawari | det |
| 22 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Topiawari | compound |
| 23 | Topiawari | Topiawari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 him | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 25 | Raleigh | Raleigh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 went | nsubj |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 went | advmod |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 attacked | parataxis |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 way | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 way | nmod:poss |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 restored | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 restored | cc |
| 33 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 authority | amod |
| 34 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 restored | aux:pass |
| 36 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 went | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 attacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | past | pirate | San | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent san=Patient | ||||
| 2 | capture | participle | San not said here | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | interrogate speech: other | participle | Antonio | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antonio=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | obtain | past | pirate not said here | much information | from pirate | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent information=Theme from he=Source | |||
| 5 | go | past | Raleigh | pirate's way | then | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||
| 6 | restore | past · passive | Spanish authority | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Trinidad and Tobago», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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