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title: In the 1880s–1890s, the population swelled rapidly, and the characte… — Port of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1880s–1890s, the population swelled rapidly, and the characteristic Belmont street pattern of narrow, winding lanes developed. Who acts: population, characteristic. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port of Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port of Spain, sentence 87

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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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In the 1880s–1890s, the population swelled rapidly, and the characteristic Belmont street pattern of narrow, winding lanes developed.

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**Who acts:** population, characteristic · **What happens:** swell, pattern, wind, develop · **To what, where:** lanes

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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 (population, characteristic), 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:87
# text = In the 1880s–1890s, the population swelled rapidly, and the characteristic Belmont street pattern of narrow, winding lanes developed.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1880s	1880	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	1890s	1890	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	swelled	swell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	Belmont	Belmont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
16	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
22	lanes	lane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swell** | past | the population |  |  |  |  | in the 1880s and 1890s; rapidly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1880=Attribute |
| 2 | **pattern** |  | the characteristic |  |  |  |  | of narrow | tree rules |
| 3 | **wind** | gerund | the population *not said here* | lanes |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lane=Theme |
| 4 | **develop** | participle |  | lanes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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