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The colony's first British governor was Thomas Picton, however his heavy-handed approach to enforcing British authority, including the use of torture and arbitrary arrest, led to his being recalled. **Who acts:** first British governor, governor · **What happens:** be, hand, enforce, lead, recall, approach · **To what, where:** Thomas, British authority, governor, torture 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 (first British governor, governor), 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:Trinidad_and_Tobago:62 # text = The colony's first British governor was Thomas Picton, however his heavy-handed approach to enforcing British authority, including the use of torture and arbitrary arrest, led to his being recalled. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 colony colony NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 5 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 governor governor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 Thomas Thomas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 Picton Picton PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 however however ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 13 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 handed hand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 approach approach NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 17 to to SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 enforcing enforce VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 19 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 authority authority NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 including including ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 torture torture NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 arbitrary arbitrary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 arrest arrest NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ _ 32 to to SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 recalled recall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the colony's first British governor | Thomas | | | | governor's heavy handed approach *appos* | tree rules | | 2 | **hand** | participle | | | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **enforce** | gerund | the colony's first British governor *not said here* | British authority | | | | including the use of torture and arbitrary arrest | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Theme | | 4 | **lead** | participle | | Thomas *not said here* | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | | 5 | **recall** | gerund · passive | | governor | | | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **approach** | | governor | | | | | | nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **use** | | | torture and arbitrary arrest | | | | | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient | 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Trinidad_and_Tobago/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Trinidad_and_Tobago/63/) - ↑ back to [Trinidad and Tobago](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Trinidad_and_Tobago/)