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title: Following an election in 1887, Michel Maxwell Philip became the mayo… — Port of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Following an election in 1887, Michel Maxwell Philip became the mayor, a position that had previously been held by only whites. Who acts: Michel. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port of Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port of Spain, sentence 150

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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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Following an election in 1887, Michel Maxwell Philip became the mayor, a position that had previously been held by only whites.

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**Who acts:** Michel · **What happens:** follow, become, hold, white · **To what, where:** election, mayor, 1887, position

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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 (Michel), 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:150
# text = Following an election in 1887, Michel Maxwell Philip became the mayor, a position that had previously been held by only whites.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1887	1887	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Michel	Michel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	Maxwell	Maxwell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	Philip	Philip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	whites	white	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  | a election |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | Michel | the mayor |  |  |  | in 1887 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1887=Result |
| 3 | **hold** | past · perfect · passive |  | a position |  |  |  | previously *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **white** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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