Port of Spain, sentence 150
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.
Following an election in 1887, Michel Maxwell Philip became the mayor, a position that had previously been held by only whites.
Who acts: Michel · What happens: follow, become, hold, white · To what, where: election, mayor, 1887, position
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 (Michel), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 1887 | csubj |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 election | det |
| 3 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Following | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1887 | case |
| 5 | 1887 | 1887 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 became | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 1887 | punct |
| 7 | Michel | Michel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 became | nsubj |
| 8 | Maxwell | Maxwell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Michel | flat |
| 9 | Philip | Philip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Michel | flat |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mayor | det |
| 12 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 position | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 position | det |
| 15 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mayor | appos |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 held | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 held | aux |
| 18 | previously | previously | ADV | _ | 20 held | advmod |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 held | aux:pass |
| 20 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 position | acl:relcl |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 23 whites | mark |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 whites | advmod |
| 23 | whites | white | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 held | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | a election | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Theme | |||||
| 2 | become | past | Michel | the mayor | in 1887 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1887=Result | |||
| 3 | hold | past · perfect · passive | a position | previously property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | white | present | tree rules |
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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