Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 95
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 November 1919, the dockworkers went on strike over bad management practices, low wages compared to a higher cost of living.
Who acts: dockworkers · What happens: go, compare, cost · To what, where: strike, low wages, living
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 (dockworkers), 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 November | case |
| 2 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 3 | 1919 | 1919 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 November | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 November | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dockworkers | det |
| 6 | dockworkers | dockworker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 strike | case |
| 9 | strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 practices | case |
| 11 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 practices | amod |
| 12 | management | management | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 practices | compound |
| 13 | practices | practice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wages | punct |
| 15 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wages | amod |
| 16 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 practices | conj |
| 17 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 wages | acl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 cost | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cost | det |
| 20 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 cost | amod |
| 21 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 compared | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 living | case |
| 23 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cost | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the dockworkers | strike | november | over bad management practices and low wages | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over practice=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | compare | participle | low wages not said here | to a higher cost of living | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cost | living | nom cost «possession 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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