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title: The death sentences were eventually commuted to terms of imprisonment. — Grenada · tree and pragmatics
description: The death sentences were eventually commuted to terms of imprisonment. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Grenada» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Grenada, sentence 113

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From Wikipedia, [«Grenada»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenada), 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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The death sentences were eventually commuted to terms of imprisonment.

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**What happens:** commute, term · **To what, where:** death sentences, imprisonment

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Grenada». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Grenada:113
# text = The death sentences were eventually commuted to terms of imprisonment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sentences	sentence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	commuted	commute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commute** | past · passive |  | the death sentences |  |  |  | to terms of imprisonment *result*; eventually *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2 «NP V NP.patient PP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: subject=Patient to term=Result |
| 2 | **term** |  |  | imprisonment |  |  |  |  | nom term «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, «Grenada», 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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