Port of Spain, sentence 202
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.
St. James, "uptown" Port of Spain (St. Clair and Woodbrook) have seen a boom in nightclubs, sports bars and fine dining restaurants as workers from government offices and large corporations disgorge on evenings from high-rise headquarters built in newly commercialized formerly upscale neighbourhoods.
Who acts: James, workers · What happens: see, disgorge, build in, commercialize · To what, where: boom, nightclubs, rise headquarters, upscale neighbourhoods
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 (James, workers), 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 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 James | nmod:desc |
| 2 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 uptown | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 uptown | punct |
| 5 | uptown | uptown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 James | appos |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 uptown | punct |
| 7 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 uptown | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Spain | case |
| 9 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Port | nmod |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Clair | punct |
| 11 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Clair | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Clair | Clair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Port | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Woodbrook | cc |
| 14 | Woodbrook | Woodbrook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Clair | conj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Clair | punct |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 boom | det |
| 19 | boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 nightclubs | case |
| 21 | nightclubs | nightclub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 seen | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bars | punct |
| 23 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bars | compound |
| 24 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 nightclubs | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 restaurants | cc |
| 26 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 restaurants | amod |
| 27 | dining | dining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 restaurants | compound |
| 28 | restaurants | restaurant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 nightclubs | conj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 workers | case |
| 30 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 disgorge | nsubj |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 offices | case |
| 32 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 offices | compound |
| 33 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 workers | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 corporations | cc |
| 35 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 corporations | amod |
| 36 | corporations | corporation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 offices | conj |
| 37 | disgorge | disgorge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | parataxis |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 evenings | case |
| 39 | evenings | evening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 disgorge | obl |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 headquarters | case |
| 41 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 rise | amod |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 high | punct |
| 43 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 headquarters | compound |
| 44 | headquarters | headquarters | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 39 evenings | nmod |
| 45 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 headquarters | acl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 built | compound:prt |
| 47 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 48 commercialized | advmod |
| 48 | commercialized | commercialize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 built | conj |
| 49 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 51 neighbourhoods | advmod |
| 50 | upscale | upscale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 neighbourhoods | amod |
| 51 | neighbourhoods | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 commercialized | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | James St. | a boom | nightclubs and sports bars and fine dining restaurants | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boom=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | disgorge | present | workers from government offices and large corporations | evening | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | build in | participle | rise headquarters not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | commercialize | participle | upscale neighbourhoods | newly property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
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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