Port of Spain, sentence 125

From Wikipedia, «Port of Spain», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

At first it was used as a vast cattle pasture in what was then the town's suburbs, but by the middle of the 19th century it had become established as a park.

Who acts: vast cattle pasture, distance · What happens: use, be, become, establish · To what, where: distance, suburbs

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port of Spain». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vast cattle pasture, distance), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 used	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 used	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 used	aux:pass
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	10 pasture	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pasture	det
8	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pasture	amod
9	cattle	cattle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pasture	amod
10	pasture	pasture	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	18 suburbs	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 suburbs	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 suburbs	cop
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 suburbs	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 town	det
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 suburbs	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 town	case
18	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pasture	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 become	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 become	cc
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 middle	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 middle	det
23	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 become	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 century	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 century	det
26	19th	19th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	27 century	amod
27	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 middle	nmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 become	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 become	aux
30	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 used	conj
31	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 become	xcomp
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 park	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 park	det
34	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 established	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		distance			as a vast cattle pasture	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as pasture=Attribute
2	is	past	a vast cattle pasture		the town's suburbs	then	the town nmod:poss	tree rules
3	become	past · perfect	distance				by the middle of the 19th century	tree rules
4	establish	participle	distance not said here				as a park	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

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, «Port of Spain», 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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Port of Spain, sentence 125