Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 127
From Wikipedia, «Trinidad and Tobago», 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.
Amidst the backdrop of the rising Black Power movement in 1960s Trinidad and Tobago, and following protests, strikes, and a mutiny attempt in April 1970, a more radical opposition emerged in the form of the National Union of Freedom Fighters (NUFF).
What happens: rise, follow, emerge, form · To what, where: radical opposition, form, Amidst backdrop, National Union
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Trinidad and Tobago». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Amidst | Amidst | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 backdrop | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 backdrop | det |
| 3 | backdrop | backdrop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 movement | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 movement | det |
| 6 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 movement | amod |
| 7 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Power | amod |
| 8 | Power | Power | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 movement | compound |
| 9 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 backdrop | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1960s | case |
| 11 | 1960s | 1960s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 9 movement | nmod |
| 12 | Trinidad | Trinidad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 1960s | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Tobago | cc |
| 14 | Tobago | Tobago | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Trinidad | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 protests | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 protests | cc |
| 17 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 protests | amod |
| 18 | protests | protest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 backdrop | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 strikes | punct |
| 20 | strikes | strike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 protests | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 attempt | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 attempt | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 attempt | det |
| 24 | mutiny | mutiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 attempt | compound |
| 25 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 backdrop | appos |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 April | case |
| 27 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 attempt | nmod |
| 28 | 1970 | 1970 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 April | nmod:unmarked |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 opposition | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 opposition | det |
| 31 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 radical | advmod |
| 32 | radical | radical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 opposition | amod |
| 33 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 attempt | conj |
| 34 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 opposition | acl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 form | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 form | det |
| 37 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 emerged | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Union | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Union | det |
| 40 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Union | amod |
| 41 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 form | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Fighters | case |
| 43 | Freedom | Freedom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Fighters | compound |
| 44 | Fighters | Fighter | PROPN | Number=Plur | 41 Union | nmod |
| 45 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 NUFF | punct |
| 46 | NUFF | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 Fighters | appos |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 NUFF | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 backdrop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | emerge | participle | a radical opposition not said here | the form of the National Union of Freedom Fighters | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location | ||||
| 5 | form | the National Union of Freedom Fighters | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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