Port of Spain, sentence 87
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.
In the 1880s–1890s, the population swelled rapidly, and the characteristic Belmont street pattern of narrow, winding lanes developed.
Who acts: population, characteristic · What happens: swell, pattern, wind, develop · To what, where: lanes
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 (population, characteristic), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 1880s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 1880s | det |
| 3 | 1880s | 1880 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 9 swelled | obl |
| 4 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 1890s | punct |
| 5 | 1890s | 1890 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 1880s | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 1880s | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 population | det |
| 8 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swelled | nsubj |
| 9 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 9 swelled | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pattern | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pattern | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 characteristic | det |
| 14 | characteristic | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pattern | nsubj |
| 15 | Belmont | Belmont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 characteristic | appos |
| 16 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pattern | compound |
| 17 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swelled | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 narrow | case |
| 19 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pattern | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 winding | punct |
| 21 | winding | wind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 swelled | advcl |
| 22 | lanes | lane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 winding | obj |
| 23 | developed | develop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 lanes | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 swelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swell | past | the population | in the 1880s and 1890s; rapidly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1880=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | pattern | the characteristic | of narrow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wind | gerund | the population not said here | lanes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lane=Theme | ||||
| 4 | develop | participle | lanes not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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