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title: At first it was used as a vast cattle pasture in what was then the t… — Port of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: At first it was used as a vast cattle pasture in what was then the town's suburbs, but by the middle of the 19th century it had become established as a park. Who acts: vast cattle pasture, distance. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port of Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port of Spain, sentence 125

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From Wikipedia, [«Port of Spain»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Spain), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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At first it was used as a vast cattle pasture in what was then the town's suburbs, but by the middle of the 19th century it had become established as a park.

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**Who acts:** vast cattle pasture, distance · **What happens:** use, be, become, establish · **To what, where:** distance, suburbs

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port of Spain». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vast cattle pasture, distance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Port_of_Spain:125
# text = At first it was used as a vast cattle pasture in what was then the town's suburbs, but by the middle of the 19th century it had become established as a park.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	cattle	cattle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
31	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	xcomp	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive |  | distance |  |  |  | as a vast cattle pasture | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as pasture=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past | a vast cattle pasture |  |  | the town's suburbs | then | the town *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | past · perfect | distance |  |  |  |  | by the middle of the 19th century | tree rules |
| 4 | **establish** | participle | distance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a park | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Port of Spain», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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