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title: Port of Spain is a shopping and business centre for much of the coun… — Port of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Port of Spain is a shopping and business centre for much of the country. Who acts: Port. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port of Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port of Spain, sentence 171

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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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Port of Spain is a shopping and business centre for much of the country.

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**Who acts:** Port · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** shopping centre

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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 (Port), 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:171
# text = Port of Spain is a shopping and business centre for much of the country.
1	Port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	shopping	shopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Port of Spain | a shopping centre |  |  |  | for much of the country | 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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