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title: The Welsers transported German miners to the colony, in addition to… — Venezuela · tree and pragmatics
description: The Welsers transported German miners to the colony, in addition to 4,000 African slaves to plant sugar cane plantations. Who acts: Welsers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Venezuela» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Venezuela, sentence 64

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From Wikipedia, [«Venezuela»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela), 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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The Welsers transported German miners to the colony, in addition to 4,000 African slaves to plant sugar cane plantations.

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**Who acts:** Welsers · **What happens:** transport, plant · **To what, where:** German miners, addition, cane plantations

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Venezuela». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Welsers), 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:Venezuela:64
# text = The Welsers transported German miners to the colony, in addition to 4,000 African slaves to plant sugar cane plantations.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Welsers	welser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	transported	transport	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	miners	miner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	4,000	4,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	plant	plant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
18	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	plantations	plantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transport** | past | the Welsers | German miners |  | addition |  | to the colony; to 4,000 African slaves | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent miner=Theme to colony=Destination |
| 2 | **plant** | to-infinitive | the Welsers *not said here* | cane plantations |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plantation=Patient |

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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, «Venezuela», 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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