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title: However the Spanish never made any concerted effort to colonise the… — Trinidad and Tobago · tree and pragmatics
description: However the Spanish never made any concerted effort to colonise the islands; Trinidad in this period was still mostly forest, populated by a few Spaniards with a handful of slaves and a few thousand Indigenous people. Who acts: Spanish, Trinidad. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Trinidad and Tobago» with 
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# Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 45

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From Wikipedia, [«Trinidad and Tobago»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago), 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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However the Spanish never made any concerted effort to colonise the islands; Trinidad in this period was still mostly forest, populated by a few Spaniards with a handful of slaves and a few thousand Indigenous people.

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**Who acts:** Spanish, Trinidad · **What happens:** not make, colonise, be, populate · **To what, where:** concerted effort, islands, forest

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Trinidad and Tobago». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spanish, Trinidad), 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:Trinidad_and_Tobago:45
# text = However the Spanish never made any concerted effort to colonise the islands; Trinidad in this period was still mostly forest, populated by a few Spaniards with a handful of slaves and a few thousand Indigenous people.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	concerted	concerted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	colonise	colonise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	Trinidad	Trinidad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	populated	populate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Spaniards	Spaniard	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
37	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | past | the Spanish | any concerted effort |  |  |  | however *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product |
| 2 | **colonise** | to-infinitive | the Spanish *not said here* | the islands |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Trinidad in this period | forest |  |  | still | mostly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **populate** | participle |  | forest *not said here* |  |  |  | by a few Spaniards; with a handful of slaves and thousand Indigenous people | tree rules |

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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, «Trinidad and Tobago», 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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