--- title: However, the oil and gas majors and some service companies have loca… — Port of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: However, the oil and gas majors and some service companies have located their headquarters in the city to be in close proximity to government services, infrastructure and the high quality of life many citizens of Port of Spain enjoy. Who acts: many citizens. 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However, the oil and gas majors and some service companies have located their headquarters in the city to be in close proximity to government services, infrastructure and the high quality of life many citizens of Port of Spain enjoy. **Who acts:** many citizens · **What happens:** locate, be, enjoy · **To what, where:** oil majors, city, close proximity 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 (many citizens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:177 # text = However, the oil and gas majors and some service companies have located their headquarters in the city to be in close proximity to government services, infrastructure and the high quality of life many citizens of Port of Spain enjoy. 1 However however ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 majors major NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 10 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 12 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 located locate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 headquarters headquarters NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 13 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 proximity proximity NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 advcl _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 services service NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 infrastructure infrastructure NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 quality quality NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 citizens citizen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Port Port PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 enjoy enjoy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **locate** | present · perfect · passive | | oil majors and some service companies | | the city | | majors's headquarters *obj*; however *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | close proximity and infrastructure and the high quality of life | | to government services; infrastructure *conj*; the high quality of life *conj* | tree rules | | 3 | **enjoy** | present | many citizens of Port of Spain | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 176](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_of_Spain/176/) - next →: [sentence 178](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_of_Spain/178/) - ↑ back to [Port of Spain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_of_Spain/)