--- title: St. James, "uptown" Port of Spain (St. Clair and Woodbrook) have see… — Port of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: St. James, "uptown" Port of Spain (St. Clair and Woodbrook) have seen a boom in nightclubs, sports bars and fine dining restaurants as workers from government offices and large corporations disgorge on evenings from high-rise headquarters built in newly commercialized formerly upscale neighbourhoods --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_of_Spain/202/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Port of Spain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_of_Spain/) / 202 # Port of Spain, sentence 202 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. St. James, "uptown" Port of Spain (St. Clair and Woodbrook) have seen a boom in nightclubs, sports bars and fine dining restaurants as workers from government offices and large corporations disgorge on evenings from high-rise headquarters built in newly commercialized formerly upscale neighbourhoods. **Who acts:** James, workers · **What happens:** see, disgorge, build in, commercialize · **To what, where:** boom, nightclubs, rise headquarters, upscale neighbourhoods 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 (James, workers), 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:202 # text = St. James, "uptown" Port of Spain (St. Clair and Woodbrook) have seen a boom in nightclubs, sports bars and fine dining restaurants as workers from government offices and large corporations disgorge on evenings from high-rise headquarters built in newly commercialized formerly upscale neighbourhoods. 1 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 uptown uptown NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 Port Port PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:desc _ _ 12 Clair Clair PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 Woodbrook Woodbrook PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 16 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 boom boom NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 nightclubs nightclub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 sports sport NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 compound _ _ 24 bars bar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 dining dining NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 restaurants restaurant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 offices office NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 corporations corporation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 37 disgorge disgorge VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 evenings evening NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 rise rise NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 headquarters headquarters NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 39 nmod _ _ 45 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl _ _ 46 in in ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 47 newly newly ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 commercialized commercialize VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 conj _ _ 49 formerly formerly ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 50 upscale upscale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 neighbourhoods neighbourhood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present · perfect | James St. | a boom | | nightclubs and sports bars and fine dining restaurants | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boom=Stimulus | | 2 | **disgorge** | present | workers from government offices and large corporations | | | | evening | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **build in** | participle | | rise headquarters *not said here* | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **commercialize** | participle | | upscale neighbourhoods | | | | newly *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | 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 201](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_of_Spain/201/) - next →: [sentence 203](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_of_Spain/203/) - ↑ back to [Port of Spain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_of_Spain/)