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title: But in 1690, Spanish governor Don Sebastien de Roteta reported in wr… — Port of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: But in 1690, Spanish governor Don Sebastien de Roteta reported in writing to the King of Spain. Who acts: Don. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port of Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port of Spain, sentence 27

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From Wikipedia, [«Port of Spain»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Spain), 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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But in 1690, Spanish governor Don Sebastien de Roteta reported in writing to the King of Spain.

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**Who acts:** Don · **What happens:** report · **To what, where:** 1690

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port of Spain». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don), 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:Port_of_Spain:27
# text = But in 1690, Spanish governor Don Sebastien de Roteta reported in writing to the King of Spain.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	1690	1690	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	Sebastien	Sebastien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	Roteta	Roteta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
11	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | past | Don  Spanish governor |  |  | 1690 |  | in writing to the King of Spain | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=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, «Port of Spain», 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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