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title: Many murders are drug and gang related, especially in the depressed… — Port of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Many murders are drug and gang related, especially in the depressed communities of East Port of Spain. Who acts: Many murders. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port of Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port of Spain, sentence 286

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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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Many murders are drug and gang related, especially in the depressed communities of East Port of Spain.

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**Who acts:** Many murders · **What happens:** be, gang · **To what, where:** drug

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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 (Many murders), 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:286
# text = Many murders are drug and gang related, especially in the depressed communities of East Port of Spain.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	murders	murder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	drug	drug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	gang	gang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	depressed	depressed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Many murders | drug |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gang** | infinitive | Many murders *not said here* |  |  |  |  | related *property* | tree rules |

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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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