Port of Spain, sentence 129
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.
Lady Chancellor Road, which ascends the hills overlooking the Savannah, is one of Port of Spain's most exclusive residential areas and is the current home of former West Indies cricketer and record breaking batsman, Brian Lara.
Who acts: Lady Chancellor Road, hills, record · What happens: ascend, overlook, be, break · To what, where: hills, Savannah, one, current home, batsman
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 (Lady Chancellor Road, hills, record), 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 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Road | compound |
| 2 | Chancellor | Chancellor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Road | compound |
| 3 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ascends | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ascends | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 ascends | nsubj |
| 6 | ascends | ascend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hills | det |
| 8 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ascends | obj |
| 9 | overlooking | overlook | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hills | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Savannah | det |
| 11 | Savannah | Savannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 overlooking | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | cop |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 ascends | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Port | case |
| 16 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 one | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 areas | case |
| 18 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 areas | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Spain | case |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 exclusive | advmod |
| 21 | exclusive | exclusive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 areas | amod |
| 22 | residential | residential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 areas | amod |
| 23 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Port | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 home | cc |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 home | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 home | det |
| 27 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 home | amod |
| 28 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Port | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Indies | case |
| 30 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Indies | amod |
| 31 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Indies | compound |
| 32 | Indies | indy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 home | nmod |
| 33 | cricketer | cricketer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Indies | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 record | cc |
| 35 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cricketer | conj |
| 36 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 record | acl |
| 37 | batsman | batsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 breaking | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Brian | punct |
| 39 | Brian | Brian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 cricketer | appos |
| 40 | Lara | Lara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Brian | flat |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ascends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascend | present | Lady Chancellor Road | the hills | which nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hill=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | overlook | gerund | the hills not said here | the Savannah | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent savannah=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | one | of Port of Spain's exclusive residential areas and the current home | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the current home | of former West Indies and cricketer and record | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | break | gerund | record not said here | batsman | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer batsman=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, «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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