Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 400
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.
Through cultural preservation many residents of Indian descent continue to maintain traditions from their ancestral homeland.
Who acts: many residents · What happens: continue, maintain · To what, where: cultural preservation, traditions, ancestral homeland
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 (many residents), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 preservation | case |
| 2 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 preservation | amod |
| 3 | preservation | preservation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 continue | obl |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 residents | amod |
| 5 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 continue | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 descent | case |
| 7 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 descent | amod |
| 8 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 residents | nmod |
| 9 | continue | continue | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 maintain | mark |
| 11 | maintain | maintain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 continue | xcomp |
| 12 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 maintain | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 homeland | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 homeland | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ancestral | ancestral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 homeland | amod |
| 16 | homeland | homeland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 maintain | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 continue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | infinitive | many residents of Indian descent | cultural preservation | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | maintain | to-infinitive | many residents of Indian descent not said here | traditions | residents's ancestral homeland | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent tradition=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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