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While the first French presence in Hôpital, the region later to contain Port-au-Prince was that of the flibustiers; as the region became a real French colony, the colonial administration began to worry about the continual presence of these pirates. **Who acts:** Port, region, colonial administration · **What happens:** contain, be, become, begin, worry · **To what, where:** real French colony 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 (Port, region, colonial administration), 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:53 # text = While the first French presence in Hôpital, the region later to contain Port-au-Prince was that of the flibustiers; as the region became a real French colony, the colonial administration began to worry about the continual presence of these pirates. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 4 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 presence presence NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 advcl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Hôpital Hôpital PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 region region NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 contain contain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 Port Port PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 au au NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 flibustiers flibustier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 region region NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 colony colony NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 colonial colonial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 administration administration NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 worry worry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 about about ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 continual continual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 presence presence NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 46 det _ _ 46 pirates pirate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **contain** | to-infinitive | | | | | | the first French presence in Hôpital *advcl*; late *property* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **is** | past | Port and Prince | | | | | of the flibustiers | tree rules | | 3 | **become** | past | the region | a real French colony | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **begin** | past | the colonial administration | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **worry** | to-infinitive | the colonial administration *not said here* | | | | | about the continual presence of this pirates | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about presence=Stimulus | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port-au-Prince/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port-au-Prince/54/) - ↑ back to [Port-au-Prince](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port-au-Prince/)