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title: A small percentage of descendants of indentured workers from India w… — Grenada · tree and pragmatics
description: A small percentage of descendants of indentured workers from India were brought to Grenada between 1857 and 1885. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Grenada» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Grenada, sentence 234

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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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A small percentage of descendants of indentured workers from India were brought to Grenada between 1857 and 1885.

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**What happens:** indenture, bring · **To what, where:** small percentage, Grenada

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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:234
# text = A small percentage of descendants of indentured workers from India were brought to Grenada between 1857 and 1885.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	percentage	percentage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	descendants	descendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	indentured	indenture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Grenada	Grenada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1857	1857	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	1885	1885	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **indenture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | past · passive |  | a small percentage of descendants of indentured workers from India | Grenada |  |  | between 1857 | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to grenada=Destination |

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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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