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title: On 16 October 1983, Bernard Coard and his wife, Phyllis Coard, backe… — Grenada · tree and pragmatics
description: On 16 October 1983, Bernard Coard and his wife, Phyllis Coard, backed by the Grenadian Army, led a coup against the government of Maurice Bishop and placed Bishop under house arrest. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Grenada» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Grenada, sentence 85

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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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On 16 October 1983, Bernard Coard and his wife, Phyllis Coard, backed by the Grenadian Army, led a coup against the government of Maurice Bishop and placed Bishop under house arrest.

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**What happens:** back, lead, place · **To what, where:** Bernard, coup, government, Bishop, house arrest

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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:85
# text = On 16 October 1983, Bernard Coard and his wife, Phyllis Coard, backed by the Grenadian Army, led a coup against the government of Maurice Bishop and placed Bishop under house arrest.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
4	1983	1983	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Bernard	Bernard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	Coard	Coard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Phyllis	Phyllis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	Coard	Coard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	backed	back	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Grenadian	Grenadian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Army	Army	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	against	against	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	Bishop	Bishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
32	Bishop	Bishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	under	under	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	arrest	arrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **back** | participle |  | Bernard and Bernard's wife and Phyllis *not said here* |  |  |  | the Grenadian Army *obl:agent* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | past |  | a coup |  | the government of Maurice | october |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coup=Theme against government=Destination |
| 3 | **place** | participle |  | Bishop |  | house arrest |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bishop=Theme under arrest=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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