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title: The Portuguese consolidated their hold on the island by constructing… — Manama · tree and pragmatics
description: The Portuguese consolidated their hold on the island by constructing the Bahrain Fort, on the outskirts of Manama. Who acts: Portuguese, empires. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Manama» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Manama, sentence 44

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From Wikipedia, [«Manama»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manama), 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 Portuguese consolidated their hold on the island by constructing the Bahrain Fort, on the outskirts of Manama.

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**Who acts:** Portuguese, empires · **What happens:** consolidate, construct, hold · **To what, where:** hold, island, Bahrain Fort, outskirts

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Manama». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Portuguese, empires), 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:Manama:44
# text = The Portuguese consolidated their hold on the island by constructing the Bahrain Fort, on the outskirts of Manama.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	consolidated	consolidate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	constructing	construct	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Bahrain	Bahrain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Fort	Fort	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Manama	Manama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consolidate** | past | the Portuguese | empires's hold |  | the island |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Patient |
| 2 | **construct** | gerund | the Portuguese *not said here* | the Bahrain Fort |  | the outskirts of Manama |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fort=Result |
| 3 | **hold** |  | empires *= empire* |  |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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, «Manama», 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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