Port of Spain, sentence 177
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.
However, the oil and gas majors and some service companies have located their headquarters in the city to be in close proximity to government services, infrastructure and the high quality of life many citizens of Port of Spain enjoy.
Who acts: many citizens · What happens: locate, be, enjoy · To what, where: oil majors, city, close proximity
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 (many citizens), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 13 located | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 oil | det |
| 4 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 majors | compound |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gas | cc |
| 6 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 oil | conj |
| 7 | majors | major | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 located | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 companies | cc |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 companies | det |
| 10 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 companies | compound |
| 11 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 majors | conj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 located | aux |
| 13 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 headquarters | nmod:poss |
| 15 | headquarters | headquarters | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 located | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 city | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 located | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 proximity | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 proximity | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 proximity | case |
| 22 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 proximity | amod |
| 23 | proximity | proximity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 located | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 services | case |
| 25 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 services | compound |
| 26 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 proximity | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 infrastructure | punct |
| 28 | infrastructure | infrastructure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 proximity | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 quality | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 quality | det |
| 31 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 quality | amod |
| 32 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 proximity | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 life | case |
| 34 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 quality | nmod |
| 35 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 citizens | amod |
| 36 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 enjoy | nsubj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Port | case |
| 38 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 citizens | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Spain | case |
| 40 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Port | nmod |
| 41 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 quality | parataxis |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 located | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | present · perfect · passive | oil majors and some service companies | the city | majors's headquarters obj; however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | close proximity and infrastructure and the high quality of life | to government services; infrastructure conj; the high quality of life conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enjoy | present | many citizens of Port of Spain | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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