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With the arrival of the Spaniards, the Amerindians were forced to accept a protectorate, and Bohechio, childless at death, was succeeded by his sister, Anacaona, wife of the cacique Caonabo. **Who acts:** Amerindians, sister, Spaniards · **What happens:** force, accept, succeed, arrive · **To what, where:** Amerindians, protectorate, Bohechio This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port-au-Prince». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Amerindians, sister, Spaniards), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Port-au-Prince:29 # text = With the arrival of the Spaniards, the Amerindians were forced to accept a protectorate, and Bohechio, childless at death, was succeeded by his sister, Anacaona, wife of the cacique Caonabo. 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 arrival arrival NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Spaniards Spaniard PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Amerindians Amerindian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 protectorate protectorate NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 18 Bohechio Bohechio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 childless childless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 succeeded succeed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Anacaona Anacaona PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 cacique cacique NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 Caonabo Caonabo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **force** | past · passive | | the Amerindians | | | | with the arrival of the Spaniards | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **accept** | to-infinitive | the Amerindians *not said here* | a protectorate | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protectorate=Theme | | 3 | **succeed** | past · passive | Bohechio's sister and wife of the cacique | Bohechio | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **arrive** | | the Spaniards | | | | | | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Port-au-Prince», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port-au-Prince/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port-au-Prince/30/) - ↑ back to [Port-au-Prince](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port-au-Prince/)