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title: The upgrading of the Churchill–Roosevelt highway to a grade separate… — Port of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The upgrading of the Churchill–Roosevelt highway to a grade separated expressway and the extension of water ferry services from Port of Spain to the major urban hubs along the west coast are particularly notable. Who acts: upgrading. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port of Spain» with its dependency tree
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# Port of Spain, sentence 329

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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 upgrading of the Churchill–Roosevelt highway to a grade separated expressway and the extension of water ferry services from Port of Spain to the major urban hubs along the west coast are particularly notable.

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**Who acts:** upgrading · **What happens:** upgrade, separate, be

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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 (upgrading), 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:329
# text = The upgrading of the Churchill–Roosevelt highway to a grade separated expressway and the extension of water ferry services from Port of Spain to the major urban hubs along the west coast are particularly notable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	upgrading	upgrade	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	csubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Churchill	Churchill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Roosevelt	Roosevelt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	grade	grade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	expressway	expressway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	extension	extension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	ferry	ferry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hubs	hub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
30	along	along	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	notable	notable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **upgrade** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of the Churchill; to the major urban hubs along the west coast | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to hub=Attribute |
| 2 | **separate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | upgrading |  |  |  |  | notable, particularly *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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