Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 90
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.
Discontent erupted into rioting on the Roxborough plantation in 1876, in an event known as the Belmanna Uprising after a policeman who was killed.
Who acts: Discontent · What happens: erupt, riot, know, kill · To what, where: 1876, Roxborough plantation, event, policeman
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 (Discontent), 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 | Discontent | discontent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 erupted | nsubj |
| 2 | erupted | erupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 4 rioting | mark |
| 4 | rioting | riot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 erupted | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 plantation | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 plantation | det |
| 7 | Roxborough | Roxborough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 plantation | compound |
| 8 | plantation | plantation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rioting | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1876 | case |
| 10 | 1876 | 1876 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 erupted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 event | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 event | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 event | det |
| 14 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 erupted | parataxis |
| 15 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 event | acl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 Uprising | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Uprising | det |
| 18 | Belmanna | Belmanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Uprising | compound |
| 19 | Uprising | uprising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 known | obl |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 policeman | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 policeman | det |
| 22 | policeman | policeman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 known | obl |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 killed | aux:pass |
| 25 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 policeman | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 erupted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | erupt | past | Discontent | 1876 | a event parataxis | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1876=Location | |||
| 2 | riot | gerund | Discontent not said here | the Roxborough plantation | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | a event not said here | after a policeman | as the Belmanna Uprising | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as uprising=Attribute | |||
| 4 | kill | past · passive | a policeman | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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