Port of Spain, sentence 139
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.
To address the problem, East Port of Spain Development Company was formed in 2005 with a mandate to develop and redevelop a zone in east Port of Spain to improve the economic, social and physical environments of those areas.
Who acts: problem · What happens: address, form, develop, redevelop, improve · To what, where: problem, East Port, 2005, zone, east, economic environments
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 (problem), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 address | mark |
| 2 | address | address | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 problem | det |
| 4 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 address | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Port | punct |
| 6 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Port | compound |
| 7 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 formed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Development | case |
| 9 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Development | compound |
| 10 | Development | Development | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Port | nmod |
| 11 | Company | Company | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Development | flat |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 formed | aux:pass |
| 13 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 problem | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 2005 | case |
| 15 | 2005 | 2005 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 formed | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 mandate | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mandate | det |
| 18 | mandate | mandate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 address | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 develop | mark |
| 20 | develop | develop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 address | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 redevelop | cc |
| 22 | redevelop | redevelop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 develop | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 zone | det |
| 24 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 redevelop | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 east | case |
| 26 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 redevelop | obl |
| 27 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 east | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Spain | case |
| 29 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Port | nmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 improve | mark |
| 31 | improve | improve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 redevelop | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 environments | det |
| 33 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 environments | amod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 social | punct |
| 35 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 economic | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 physical | cc |
| 37 | physical | physical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 economic | conj |
| 38 | environments | environment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 improve | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 areas | case |
| 40 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 41 areas | det |
| 41 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 environments | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 address | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | to-infinitive | the problem | with a mandate | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent problem=Destination with mandate=Theme | ||||
| 2 | form | past · passive | the problem not said here | East Port of Spain Development | 2005 | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | develop | to-infinitive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | redevelop | infinitive | a zone | east | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent zone=Product | ||||
| 5 | improve | to-infinitive | the economic environments of that areas | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent environment=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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