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title: However, in the 1920s, the collapse of the sugarcane industry, conco… — Trinidad and Tobago · tree and pragmatics
description: However, in the 1920s, the collapse of the sugarcane industry, concomitant with the failure of the cocoa industry, resulted in widespread depression among the rural and agricultural workers in Trinidad, and encouraged the rise of a labour movement. Who acts: sugarcane industry, cocoa industry, labou
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# Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 103

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From Wikipedia, [«Trinidad and Tobago»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago), 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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However, in the 1920s, the collapse of the sugarcane industry, concomitant with the failure of the cocoa industry, resulted in widespread depression among the rural and agricultural workers in Trinidad, and encouraged the rise of a labour movement.

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**Who acts:** sugarcane industry, cocoa industry, labour movement · **What happens:** result, encourage, collapse, fail, rise · **To what, where:** 1920s, widespread depression, rise

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Trinidad and Tobago». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sugarcane industry, cocoa industry, labour movement), 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:Trinidad_and_Tobago:103
# text = However, in the 1920s, the collapse of the sugarcane industry, concomitant with the failure of the cocoa industry, resulted in widespread depression among the rural and agricultural workers in Trinidad, and encouraged the rise of a labour movement.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	1920s	1920s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	collapse	collapse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sugarcane	sugarcane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	concomitant	concomitant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	depression	depression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	among	among	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	agricultural	agricultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
32	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Trinidad	Trinidad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	encouraged	encourage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **result** | participle |  | the 1920s and concomitant with the failure of the cocoa industry *not said here* |  | widespread depression |  | among the rural workers in Trinidad | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in depression=Location |
| 2 | **encourage** | past |  | the rise of a labour movement |  |  |  | however *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rise=Theme |
| 3 | **collapse** |  | the sugarcane industry |  |  |  |  |  | nom collapse «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **fail** |  | the cocoa industry |  |  |  |  |  | nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **rise** |  | a labour movement |  |  |  |  |  | nom rise «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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, «Trinidad and Tobago», 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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