Port of Spain, sentence 31
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.
He compelled the island's Cabildo (governing council) to move to Port of Spain, and he limited its powers to the municipality.
Who acts: Don · What happens: compel, govern, move, limit · To what, where: Cabildo, Port, powers, municipality
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 (Don), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 compelled | nsubj |
| 2 | compelled | compel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 island | det |
| 4 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Cabildo | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 island | case |
| 6 | Cabildo | Cabildo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 compelled | obj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 council | punct |
| 8 | governing | govern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 council | amod |
| 9 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Cabildo | appos |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 council | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 move | mark |
| 12 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 compelled | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Port | case |
| 14 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 move | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Spain | case |
| 16 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Port | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 limited | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 limited | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 limited | nsubj |
| 20 | limited | limit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 compelled | conj |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 powers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 limited | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 municipality | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 municipality | det |
| 25 | municipality | municipality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 limited | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 compelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compel | past | Don | the island's Cabildo | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabildo=Patient | ||||
| 2 | govern | gerund | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | move | to-infinitive | Don not said here | Port of Spain | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to port=Result | ||||
| 4 | limit | past | Don | council's powers | to the municipality goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer power=Patient to municipality=Goal |
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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