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title: The city is also home to the largest container port on the island an… — Port of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The city is also home to the largest container port on the island and is one of several shipping hubs of the Caribbean, exporting both agricultural products and manufactured goods. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port of Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port of Spain, sentence 8

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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 city is also home to the largest container port on the island and is one of several shipping hubs of the Caribbean, exporting both agricultural products and manufactured goods.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** be, export, manufacture · **To what, where:** island, one, agricultural products, goods

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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 (city), 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:8
# text = The city is also home to the largest container port on the island and is one of several shipping hubs of the Caribbean, exporting both agricultural products and manufactured goods.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
9	container	container	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	shipping	shipping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	hubs	hub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	exporting	export	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
26	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
27	agricultural	agricultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	products	product	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	manufactured	manufacture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the city |  |  | the island |  | to the largest container port; home *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the city *not said here* | one |  |  |  | of several shipping hubs of the Caribbean | tree rules |
| 3 | **export** | gerund | the city *not said here* | both agricultural products |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent product=Theme |
| 4 | **manufacture** | past | the city *not said here* | goods |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Result |

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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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