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title: It is not uncommon for a passing bus to honk at or for the conductor… — Grenada · tree and pragmatics
description: It is not uncommon for a passing bus to honk at or for the conductor to yell out the window to a walking person to determine if there is interest in a ride. Who acts: conductor, passing bus, interest. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Grenada» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Grenada, sentence 228

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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 is not uncommon for a passing bus to honk at or for the conductor to yell out the window to a walking person to determine if there is interest in a ride.

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**Who acts:** conductor, passing bus, interest · **What happens:** not be, honk, yell out, walk, determine, be · **To what, where:** window, walking person

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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 (conductor, passing bus, interest), 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:228
# text = It is not uncommon for a passing bus to honk at or for the conductor to yell out the window to a walking person to determine if there is interest in a ride.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	passing	passing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	honk	honk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	conductor	conductor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	yell	yell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	determine	determine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
30	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | conductor |  |  |  |  | uncommon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **honk** | to-infinitive | a passing bus |  |  |  |  | at the conductor | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at conductor=Stimulus |
| 3 | **yell out** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | a passing bus *not said here* | the window | a walking person |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent window=Topic to person=Recipient |
| 4 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **determine** | to-infinitive | a passing bus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | interest in a ride |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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