Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 59
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.
Seriously outnumbered, Chacón decided to capitulate to the British without fighting.
Who acts: Chacón · What happens: outnumber, decide, capitulate, fight
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 (Chacón), 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 | Seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 2 outnumbered | advmod |
| 2 | outnumbered | outnumber | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 decided | punct |
| 4 | Chacón | Chacón | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 decided | nsubj |
| 5 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 outnumbered | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 capitulate | mark |
| 7 | capitulate | capitulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 decided | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 British | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 British | det |
| 10 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 capitulate | obl |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 fighting | mark |
| 12 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 capitulate | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 outnumbered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | outnumber | past | seriously property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | decide | past | Chacón | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | capitulate not said to happen | to-infinitive | Chacón not said here | to the British | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to british=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fight | gerund | Chacón not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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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