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title: The Eastern Main Road runs parallel to the highway and enters the ci… — Port of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The Eastern Main Road runs parallel to the highway and enters the city at the eastern end of Independence Square. Who acts: Eastern Main Road. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port of Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port of Spain, sentence 312

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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 Eastern Main Road runs parallel to the highway and enters the city at the eastern end of Independence Square.

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**Who acts:** Eastern Main Road · **What happens:** run, enter · **To what, where:** city, eastern end

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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 (Eastern Main Road), 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:312
# text = The Eastern Main Road runs parallel to the highway and enters the city at the eastern end of Independence Square.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Eastern	Eastern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	_
3	Main	Main	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	parallel	parallel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	enters	enter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Independence	Independence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Square	Square	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | the Eastern Main Road |  |  |  |  | to the highway *result*; parallel *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to highway=Result |
| 2 | **enter** | present | the Eastern Main Road *not said here* | the city |  |  | at the eastern end of Independence Square |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Destination |

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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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