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title: To address the problem, East Port of Spain Development Company was f… — Port of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: To address the problem, East Port of Spain Development Company was formed in 2005 with a mandate to develop and redevelop a zone in east Port of Spain to improve the economic, social and physical environments of those areas. Who acts: problem. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port of Spain» with its depen
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# Port of Spain, sentence 139

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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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To address the problem, East Port of Spain Development Company was formed in 2005 with a mandate to develop and redevelop a zone in east Port of Spain to improve the economic, social and physical environments of those areas.

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**Who acts:** problem · **What happens:** address, form, develop, redevelop, improve · **To what, where:** problem, East Port, 2005, zone, east, economic environments

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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 (problem), 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:139
# text = To address the problem, East Port of Spain Development Company was formed in 2005 with a mandate to develop and redevelop a zone in east Port of Spain to improve the economic, social and physical environments of those areas.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	address	address	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Development	Development	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mandate	mandate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	develop	develop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	redevelop	redevelop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	improve	improve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
33	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	physical	physical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
38	environments	environment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
41	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **address** | to-infinitive |  | the problem |  |  |  | with a mandate | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent problem=Destination with mandate=Theme |
| 2 | **form** | past · passive | the problem *not said here* | East Port of Spain Development |  | 2005 |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **develop** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **redevelop** | infinitive |  | a zone |  | east |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent zone=Product |
| 5 | **improve** | to-infinitive |  | the economic environments of that areas |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent environment=Patient |

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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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