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title: Seriously outnumbered, Chacón decided to capitulate to the British w… — Trinidad and Tobago · tree and pragmatics
description: Seriously outnumbered, Chacón decided to capitulate to the British without fighting. Who acts: Chacón. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Trinidad and Tobago» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 59

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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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Seriously outnumbered, Chacón decided to capitulate to the British without fighting.

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**Who acts:** Chacón · **What happens:** outnumber, decide, capitulate, fight

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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 (Chacón), 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:59
# text = Seriously outnumbered, Chacón decided to capitulate to the British without fighting.
1	Seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	outnumbered	outnumber	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Chacón	Chacón	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	capitulate	capitulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outnumber** | past |  |  |  |  |  | seriously *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **decide** | past | Chacón |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **capitulate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Chacón *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the British | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to british=Theme |
| 4 | **fight** | gerund | Chacón *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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, «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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