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title: Despite its small size, Basseterre played host to Carifesta VII (the… — Basseterre · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite its small size, Basseterre played host to Carifesta VII (the Caribbean Festival of Arts) in 2000, outbidding rivals many times its size. Who acts: Basseterre. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Basseterre» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Basseterre, sentence 38

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From Wikipedia, [«Basseterre»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basseterre), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Despite its small size, Basseterre played host to Carifesta VII (the Caribbean Festival of Arts) in 2000, outbidding rivals many times its size.

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**Who acts:** Basseterre · **What happens:** play, outbid · **To what, where:** host, Carifesta VII, 2000, rivals

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Basseterre». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Basseterre), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Basseterre:38
# text = Despite its small size, Basseterre played host to Carifesta VII (the Caribbean Festival of Arts) in 2000, outbidding rivals many times its size.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Basseterre	Basseterre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Carifesta	Carifesta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	VII	VII	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Festival	Festival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Arts	Art	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	outbidding	outbid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
23	rivals	rival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | Basseterre | host | Carifesta VII | 2000 |  | despite centre's small size | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Theme |
| 2 | **outbid** | gerund | Basseterre *not said here* | rivals |  |  | time |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rival=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Basseterre», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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