Port of Spain, sentence 286
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.
Many murders are drug and gang related, especially in the depressed communities of East Port of Spain.
Who acts: Many murders · What happens: be, gang · To what, where: drug
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 murders), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 murders | amod |
| 2 | murders | murder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drug | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drug | cop |
| 4 | drug | drug | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gang | cc |
| 6 | gang | gang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 drug | conj |
| 7 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gang | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 communities | punct |
| 9 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 13 communities | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 communities | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 communities | det |
| 12 | depressed | depressed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 communities | amod |
| 13 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 related | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Port | case |
| 15 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Port | compound |
| 16 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 communities | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Spain | case |
| 18 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Port | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Many murders | drug | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gang | infinitive | Many murders not said here | related property | 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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