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title: He compelled the island's Cabildo (governing council) to move to Por… — Port of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He compelled the island's Cabildo (governing council) to move to Port of Spain, and he limited its powers to the municipality. Who acts: Don. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port of Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port of Spain, sentence 31

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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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He compelled the island's Cabildo (governing council) to move to Port of Spain, and he limited its powers to the municipality.

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**Who acts:** Don · **What happens:** compel, govern, move, limit · **To what, where:** Cabildo, Port, powers, municipality

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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 (Don), 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:31
# text = He compelled the island's Cabildo (governing council) to move to Port of Spain, and he limited its powers to the municipality.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	compelled	compel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Cabildo	Cabildo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	governing	govern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	limited	limit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	municipality	municipality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compel** | past | Don | the island's Cabildo |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabildo=Patient |
| 2 | **govern** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **move** | to-infinitive | Don *not said here* |  | Port of Spain |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to port=Result |
| 4 | **limit** | past | Don | council's powers |  |  |  | to the municipality *goal* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer power=Patient to municipality=Goal |

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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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