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title: Port of Spain and its immediate environs have a higher crime rate th… — Port of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Port of Spain and its immediate environs have a higher crime rate than any other part of Trinidad. 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 280

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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 and its immediate environs have a higher crime rate than any other part of Trinidad.

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**Who acts:** Port · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** higher crime rate

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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:280
# text = Port of Spain and its immediate environs have a higher crime rate than any other part of Trinidad.
1	Port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	environs	environ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
11	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Trinidad	Trinidad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Port of Spain and proximity's immediate environs | a higher crime rate |  |  |  | than any other part of Trinidad | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rate=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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