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title: In 1583, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, by the royal prerogative of Queen Eli… — Canada · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1583, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, by the royal prerogative of Queen Elizabeth I, founded St John's, Newfoundland, as the first North American English seasonal camp. Who acts: Humphrey. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canada» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canada, sentence 55

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From Wikipedia, [«Canada»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada), 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 1583, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, by the royal prerogative of Queen Elizabeth I, founded St John's, Newfoundland, as the first North American English seasonal camp.

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**Who acts:** Humphrey · **What happens:** found · **To what, where:** John, 1583

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canada». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Humphrey), 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:Canada:55
# text = In 1583, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, by the royal prerogative of Queen Elizabeth I, founded St John's, Newfoundland, as the first North American English seasonal camp.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1583	1583	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Humphrey	Humphrey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
6	Gilbert	Gilbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	prerogative	prerogative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Elizabeth	Elizabeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Newfoundland	Newfoundland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
26	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	_
27	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	seasonal	seasonal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past | Humphrey  Sir | John  St and Newfoundland |  | 1583 |  | the first English seasonal camp *obl* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent john=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, «Canada», 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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