Port of Spain, sentence 237
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 original number of these immigrants was small but it grew larger when a confrontation erupted between a Muslim religious sect and the Christian Maronites.
Who acts: original number, number · What happens: be, grow, erupt · To what, where: confrontation, Muslim religious sect
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 (original number, number), 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 number | det |
| 2 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 number | amod |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 small | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 immigrants | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 immigrants | det |
| 6 | immigrants | immigrant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 small | cop |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 grew | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 small | conj |
| 12 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 grew | xcomp |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 larger | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 confrontation | det |
| 15 | confrontation | confrontation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 when | nsubj |
| 16 | erupted | erupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 confrontation | acl |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 sect | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sect | det |
| 19 | Muslim | Muslim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sect | amod |
| 20 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sect | amod |
| 21 | sect | sect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 erupted | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Maronites | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Maronites | det |
| 24 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Maronites | amod |
| 25 | Maronites | Maronite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 sect | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the original number of this immigrants | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | number | large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | erupt | participle | a confrontation not said here | a Muslim religious sect and the Christian Maronites | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between sect=Location |
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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