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title: Two of the largest banks in the Caribbean, Republic Bank, Trinidad a… — Port of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Two of the largest banks in the Caribbean, Republic Bank, Trinidad and Tobago Limited and Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (RBTT, reacquired by the Royal Bank in 2008) are headquartered here or base their Caribbean operations in the city. Who acts: banks. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port of Spain» w
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# Port of Spain, sentence 174

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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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Two of the largest banks in the Caribbean, Republic Bank, Trinidad and Tobago Limited and Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (RBTT, reacquired by the Royal Bank in 2008) are headquartered here or base their Caribbean operations in the city.

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**Who acts:** banks · **What happens:** reacquire, headquarter, operate · **To what, where:** largest banks, 2008, Two, city

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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 (banks), 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:174
# text = Two of the largest banks in the Caribbean, Republic Bank, Trinidad and Tobago Limited and Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (RBTT, reacquired by the Royal Bank in 2008) are headquartered here or base their Caribbean operations in the city.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Trinidad	Trinidad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Tobago	Tobago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	Limited	Limited	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Royal	Royal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Trinidad	Trinidad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Tobago	Tobago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	RBTT	RBTT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	reacquired	reacquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Royal	Royal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	headquartered	headquarter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
37	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	Caribbean	caribbean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	operations	operation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reacquire** | participle |  | the largest banks in the Caribbean and Republic Bank and Trinidad and Tobago and Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and RBTT *not said here* |  | 2008 |  | by the Royal Bank | tree rules |
| 2 | **headquarter** | present · passive |  | Two of the largest banks in the Caribbean and Republic Bank and Trinidad and Tobago and Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and RBTT |  | here |  | base *conj*; banks's Caribbean operations in the city *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **operate** |  | banks *= bank* |  |  | the city |  |  | nom operation «state transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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