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title: It took over five years to officially recover from Ivan, although re… — Grenada · tree and pragmatics
description: It took over five years to officially recover from Ivan, although recovery continued for decades after (e.g., the St. George's Anglican Church and the St Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Scots Kirk) were restored in 2021). Who acts: It. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Grenada» with its dependency tree and p
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# Grenada, sentence 155

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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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It took over five years to officially recover from Ivan, although recovery continued for decades after (e.g., the St. George's Anglican Church and the St Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Scots Kirk) were restored in 2021).

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**Who acts:** It · **What happens:** take over, recover, continue, restore · **To what, where:** Ivan, recovery, Anglican Church, 2021

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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: who acts (It), 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:155
# text = It took over five years to officially recover from Ivan, although recovery continued for decades after (e.g., the St. George's Anglican Church and the St Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Scots Kirk) were restored in 2021).
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	recovery	recovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	e.g.	e.g.	ADV	FW	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	Anglican	Anglican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	Presbyterian	Presbyterian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Scots	Scot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	36	compound	_	_
36	Kirk	Kirk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take over** | past | It |  |  |  | year |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **recover** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Ivan |  | although recovery; officially *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from ivan=Source |
| 3 | **continue** | participle |  | recovery *not said here* |  |  | decade |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **restore** | past · passive |  | the George  St.'s Anglican Church and the St Andrew's Presbyterian Church |  | 2021 |  | e.g. *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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, «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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