Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 50
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.
The land grant was 30 fanegas (13 hectares/32 acres) for each free man, woman and child and half of that for each slave that they brought with them.
Who acts: land grant, slaves · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: 30 fanegas, slave
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 (land grant, slaves), 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 | 3 grant | det |
| 2 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grant | compound |
| 3 | grant | grant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fanegas | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fanegas | cop |
| 5 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 fanegas | nummod |
| 6 | fanegas | fanega | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 acres | punct |
| 8 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 acres | nummod |
| 9 | hectares/32 | hectares/32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 13 | list |
| 10 | acres | acre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fanegas | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 acres | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 man | det |
| 14 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fanegas | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 woman | punct |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 man | vocative |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 child | cc |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 man | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 half | cc |
| 21 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 15 man | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 that | case |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 half | nmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 slave | case |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 slave | det |
| 26 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 half | nmod |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 brought | obj |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 brought | nsubj |
| 29 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 slave | acl:relcl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 brought | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fanegas | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the land grant | 30 fanegas | for each free man woman and child and half of that for each slave; 13 acres appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring | past | slaves = slave | each slave | with acres = acre | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent that=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.
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