Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 152
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.
Under the PP, a state of emergency (SOE) was declared because of a spike in killings, and curfews were declared in so called "hotspots" around the country.
What happens: declare, call · To what, where: PP, curfews, hotspots, country · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 PP | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 PP | det |
| 3 | PP | Pp | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 declared | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 state | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 state | det |
| 6 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 declared | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 emergency | case |
| 8 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 state | nmod |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 SOE | punct |
| 10 | SOE | SOE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 emergency | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 SOE | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 declared | aux:pass |
| 13 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 17 spike | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 because | fixed |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 spike | det |
| 17 | spike | spike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 declared | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 killings | case |
| 19 | killings | killing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spike | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 declared | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 declared | cc |
| 22 | curfews | curfew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 declared | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 declared | aux:pass |
| 24 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 declared | conj |
| 25 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 27 called | mark |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 called | advmod |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 declared | xcomp |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 hotspots | punct |
| 29 | hotspots | hotspot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 called | xcomp |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 hotspots | punct |
| 31 | around | around | ADP | _ | 33 country | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 country | det |
| 33 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 called | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past · passive | the PP | because a spike in killings; a state of emergency nsubj:pass | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past · passive | curfews | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call | participle | hotspots | the country | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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