Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 62
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 colony's first British governor was Thomas Picton, however his heavy-handed approach to enforcing British authority, including the use of torture and arbitrary arrest, led to his being recalled.
Who acts: first British governor, governor · What happens: be, hand, enforce, lead, recall, approach · To what, where: Thomas, British authority, governor, torture
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 (first British governor, governor), 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 | 2 colony | det |
| 2 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 governor | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 colony | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 governor | amod |
| 5 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 governor | amod |
| 6 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Thomas | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Thomas | cop |
| 8 | Thomas | Thomas | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | Picton | Picton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Thomas | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 approach | punct |
| 11 | however | however | ADV | _ | 16 approach | advmod |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 approach | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 approach | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 heavy | punct |
| 15 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 approach | amod |
| 16 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Thomas | appos |
| 17 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 18 enforcing | mark |
| 18 | enforcing | enforce | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 approach | acl |
| 19 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 authority | amod |
| 20 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enforcing | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 use | punct |
| 22 | including | including | ADP | _ | 24 use | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 use | det |
| 24 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enforcing | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 torture | case |
| 26 | torture | torture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 use | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 arrest | cc |
| 28 | arbitrary | arbitrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 arrest | amod |
| 29 | arrest | arrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 torture | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 led | punct |
| 31 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Thomas | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 35 recalled | mark |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 recalled | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 recalled | aux:pass |
| 35 | recalled | recall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 led | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Thomas | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the colony's first British governor | Thomas | governor's heavy handed approach appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hand | participle | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | enforce | gerund | the colony's first British governor not said here | British authority | including the use of torture and arbitrary arrest | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Theme | |||
| 4 | lead | participle | Thomas not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | |||||
| 5 | recall | gerund · passive | governor | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | approach | governor | nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | use | torture and arbitrary arrest | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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