Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 425
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.
In 1935, Indian movies began showing to audiences in Trinidad.
Who acts: Indian movies · What happens: begin, show · To what, where: 1935, audiences
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 (Indian movies), 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 | _ | 2 1935 | case |
| 2 | 1935 | 1935 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 began | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1935 | punct |
| 4 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 movies | amod |
| 5 | movies | movie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 began | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 audiences | case |
| 9 | audiences | audience | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 showing | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Trinidad | case |
| 11 | Trinidad | Trinidad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 audiences | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Indian movies | 1935 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | show | gerund | Indian movies not said here | audiences in Trinidad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to audience=Recipient |
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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