Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 56

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 sparse settlement and slow rate of population-increase during Spanish rule (and even later during British rule) made Trinidad one of the less populated colonies of the West Indies, with the least developed plantation infrastructure.

Who acts: sparse settlement · What happens: make, populate, develop · To what, where: one, Trinidad

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 (sparse settlement), 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 settlement	det
2	sparse	sparse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 settlement	amod
3	settlement	settlement	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rate	cc
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rate	amod
6	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 settlement	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 increase	case
8	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 increase	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 population	punct
10	increase	increase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rate	nmod
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 rule	case
12	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rule	amod
13	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 increase	nmod
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 rule	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rule	cc
16	even	even	ADV	_	17 later	advmod
17	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 rule	advmod
18	during	during	ADP	_	20 rule	case
19	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rule	amod
20	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rule	appos
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 rule	punct
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	Trinidad	Trinidad	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 made	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 colonies	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 colonies	det
27	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 populated	advmod
28	populated	populate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 colonies	amod
29	colonies	colony	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 Indies	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Indies	det
32	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Indies	compound
33	Indies	Indy	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 colonies	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 infrastructure	punct
35	with	with	ADP	_	40 infrastructure	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 infrastructure	det
37	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 developed	advmod
38	developed	develop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 infrastructure	amod
39	plantation	plantation	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 infrastructure	compound
40	infrastructure	infrastructure	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the sparse settlement and slow rate of population increase during Spanish rule	one of the populated colonies of the West Indies	Trinidad	with the developed plantation infrastructure	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset trinidad=Beneficiary one=Product
2	populate	participle				less property	tree rules
3	develop	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 56