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title: Discontent erupted into rioting on the Roxborough plantation in 1876… — Trinidad and Tobago · tree and pragmatics
description: Discontent erupted into rioting on the Roxborough plantation in 1876, in an event known as the Belmanna Uprising after a policeman who was killed. Who acts: Discontent. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Trinidad and Tobago» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 90

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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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Discontent erupted into rioting on the Roxborough plantation in 1876, in an event known as the Belmanna Uprising after a policeman who was killed.

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**Who acts:** Discontent · **What happens:** erupt, riot, know, kill · **To what, where:** 1876, Roxborough plantation, event, policeman

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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 (Discontent), 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:90
# text = Discontent erupted into rioting on the Roxborough plantation in 1876, in an event known as the Belmanna Uprising after a policeman who was killed.
1	Discontent	discontent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	erupted	erupt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	rioting	riot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Roxborough	Roxborough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	plantation	plantation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1876	1876	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
15	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Belmanna	Belmanna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Uprising	uprising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	policeman	policeman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **erupt** | past | Discontent |  |  | 1876 |  | a event *parataxis* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1876=Location |
| 2 | **riot** | gerund | Discontent *not said here* |  |  | the Roxborough plantation |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  | a event *not said here* |  |  | after a policeman | as the Belmanna Uprising | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as uprising=Attribute |
| 4 | **kill** | past · passive |  | a policeman |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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