Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 45

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.

However the Spanish never made any concerted effort to colonise the islands; Trinidad in this period was still mostly forest, populated by a few Spaniards with a handful of slaves and a few thousand Indigenous people.

Who acts: Spanish, Trinidad · What happens: not make, colonise, be, populate · To what, where: concerted effort, islands, forest

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 (Spanish, Trinidad), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Spanish	det
3	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 made	advmod
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 effort	det
7	concerted	concerted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 effort	amod
8	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 colonise	mark
10	colonise	colonise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 effort	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 islands	det
12	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 colonise	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 forest	punct
14	Trinidad	Trinidad	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 forest	nsubj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 period	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 period	det
17	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Trinidad	nmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 forest	cop
19	still	still	ADV	_	21 forest	advmod
20	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	21 forest	advmod
21	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 populated	punct
23	populated	populate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 forest	acl
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 Spaniards	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 Spaniards	det
26	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Spaniards	amod
27	Spaniards	Spaniard	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 populated	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 handful	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 handful	det
30	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 populated	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 slaves	case
32	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 handful	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 people	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 thousand	det
35	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 thousand	amod
36	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 people	nummod
37	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 people	amod
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 slaves	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not make	past	the Spanish	any concerted effort		however property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product
2	colonise	to-infinitive	the Spanish not said here	the islands			tree rules
3	is a	past	Trinidad in this period	forest	still	mostly property	tree rules
4	populate	participle		forest not said here		by a few Spaniards; with a handful of slaves and thousand Indigenous people	tree rules

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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Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 45