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title: The area was then renamed the Brian Lara Promenade in honor of Trini… — Port of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The area was then renamed the Brian Lara Promenade in honor of Trinidad and Tobago's most celebrated cricketer and record breaking batsman, Brian Charles Lara (1974–). Who acts: Brian Lara Promenade, honor, cricketer. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port of Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port of Spain, sentence 233

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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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The area was then renamed the Brian Lara Promenade in honor of Trinidad and Tobago's most celebrated cricketer and record breaking batsman, Brian Charles Lara (1974–).

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**Who acts:** Brian Lara Promenade, honor, cricketer · **What happens:** rename, celebrate, break, honor · **To what, where:** area, cricketer, batsman, Trinidad

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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 (Brian Lara Promenade, honor, cricketer), 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:233
# text = The area was then renamed the Brian Lara Promenade in honor of Trinidad and Tobago's most celebrated cricketer and record breaking batsman, Brian Charles Lara (1974–).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	renamed	rename	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Brian	Brian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Lara	Lara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Promenade	Promenade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Trinidad	Trinidad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Tobago	Tobago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
19	cricketer	cricketer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
23	batsman	batsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Brian	Brian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
27	Lara	Lara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	1974	1974	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rename** | past · passive | the Brian Lara Promenade in honor of Trinidad and Tobago and Brian Charles | the area |  |  | then |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **celebrate** | participle | honor of Trinidad and Tobago *not said here* | cricketer and record |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cricketer=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | gerund | cricketer and record *not said here* | batsman |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer batsman=Patient |
| 4 | **honor** |  |  | Trinidad and Tobago |  |  |  |  | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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