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title: In 1631, many acres of land directly facing Carlisle Bay were passed… — Bridgetown · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1631, many acres of land directly facing Carlisle Bay were passed to Henry Hawley, the new Governor; but after reports of his dishonest behaviour he was arrested and forcibly returned to England in 1639. Who acts: many acres. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bridgetown» with its dependency tree and pra
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# Bridgetown, sentence 29

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From Wikipedia, [«Bridgetown»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgetown), 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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In 1631, many acres of land directly facing Carlisle Bay were passed to Henry Hawley, the new Governor; but after reports of his dishonest behaviour he was arrested and forcibly returned to England in 1639.

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**Who acts:** many acres · **What happens:** face, pass, arrest, return, report · **To what, where:** Carlisle Bay, many acres, Henry, 1631, Bay, England

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bridgetown». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many acres), 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:Bridgetown:29
# text = In 1631, many acres of land directly facing Carlisle Bay were passed to Henry Hawley, the new Governor; but after reports of his dishonest behaviour he was arrested and forcibly returned to England in 1639.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1631	1631	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	acres	acre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	facing	face	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
10	Carlisle	Carlisle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	Hawley	Hawley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Governor	Governor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	arrested	arrest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	forcibly	forcibly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	1639	1639	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | gerund | many acres of land *not said here* |  | Carlisle Bay |  |  | directly *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bay=Destination |
| 2 | **pass** | past · passive |  | many acres of land | Henry and the new Governor | 1631 |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to henry=Recipient |
| 3 | **arrest** | past · passive |  | Bay |  |  | after reports of Bay's dishonest behaviour |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **return** | past |  |  | England | 1639 |  | forcibly *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to england=Result |
| 5 | **report** |  |  | Bay's dishonest behaviour |  |  |  |  | nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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, «Bridgetown», 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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