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title: The island was given its first European name by Christopher Columbus… — Grenada · tree and pragmatics
description: The island was given its first European name by Christopher Columbus, who sighted it on his third voyage to the region in 1498 and named it "La Concepción" in honour of the Virgin Mary. Who acts: Christopher, name. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Grenada» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Grenada, sentence 25

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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 island was given its first European name by Christopher Columbus, who sighted it on his third voyage to the region in 1498 and named it "La Concepción" in honour of the Virgin Mary.

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**Who acts:** Christopher, name · **What happens:** give, sight, name, voyage, honour · **To what, where:** island, name, third voyage, honour, Virgin Mary

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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 (Christopher, name), 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:25
# text = The island was given its first European name by Christopher Columbus, who sighted it on his third voyage to the region in 1498 and named it "La Concepción" in honour of the Virgin Mary.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
7	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sighted	sight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	1498	1498	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Concepción	Concepción	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive | Christopher | the island |  |  |  | name's first European name *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient name=Theme |
| 2 | **sight** | past | Christopher | name |  | Christopher's third voyage to the region in 1498 |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **name** | past | Christopher *not said here* | name |  | honour of the Virgin Mary |  | La Concepción *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  | name |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **voyage** |  | Christopher |  |  |  |  | to the region in 1498 | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
| 6 | **honour** |  |  | the Virgin Mary |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state 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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