Port of Spain, sentence 135
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.
The slow pace of building restorations over the years remains a concern.
Who acts: slow pace · What happens: remain · To what, where: concern
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 (slow pace), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pace | det |
| 2 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pace | amod |
| 3 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remains | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 restorations | case |
| 5 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 restorations | compound |
| 6 | restorations | restoration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pace | nmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 years | det |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 restorations | nmod |
| 10 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 concern | det |
| 12 | concern | concern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remains | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | the slow pace of building restorations over the years | a concern | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme concern=Attribute |
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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