Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 263
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.
On June 13, 2025 the House of Representatives approved a government motion for Acting Senior Superintendent of Police Allister Guevarro to be Commissioner of Police (CoP).
Who acts: House, government motion · What happens: approve, act, be · To what, where: government motion, Senior Superintendent, Commissioner
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: who acts (House, government motion), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 June | case |
| 2 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 approved | obl |
| 3 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 June | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 2025 | punct |
| 5 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 June | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 House | det |
| 7 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 approved | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Representatives | case |
| 9 | Representatives | Representative | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 House | nmod |
| 10 | approved | approve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 motion | det |
| 12 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 motion | compound |
| 13 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 approved | obj |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 Acting | mark |
| 15 | Acting | act | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 motion | acl |
| 16 | Senior | senior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Superintendent | amod |
| 17 | Superintendent | Superintendent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Acting | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Allister | case |
| 19 | Police | Police | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Allister | compound |
| 20 | Allister | Allister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Superintendent | nmod |
| 21 | Guevarro | Guevarro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Allister | flat |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 Commissioner | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 Commissioner | cop |
| 24 | Commissioner | commissioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Acting | advcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Police | case |
| 26 | Police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 Commissioner | nmod |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 CoP | punct |
| 28 | CoP | cop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Police | appos |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 CoP | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 approved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approve | past | the House of Representatives | a government motion | june | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motion=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | act | gerund | a government motion not said here | Senior Superintendent of Police Allister | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent superintendent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | a government motion not said here | Commissioner | of Police | 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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