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title: The collapse of Trinidad's major agricultural commodities, followed… — Trinidad and Tobago · tree and pragmatics
description: The collapse of Trinidad's major agricultural commodities, followed by the Depression, and the rise of the oil economy, led to major changes in the country's social structure. Who acts: major agricultural commodities, oil economy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Trinidad and Tobago» with its dependency t
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# Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 108

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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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The collapse of Trinidad's major agricultural commodities, followed by the Depression, and the rise of the oil economy, led to major changes in the country's social structure.

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**Who acts:** major agricultural commodities, oil economy · **What happens:** follow, lead, collapse, rise · **To what, where:** major agricultural commodities, rise, collapse

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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 (major agricultural commodities, oil economy), 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:108
# text = The collapse of Trinidad's major agricultural commodities, followed by the Depression, and the rise of the oil economy, led to major changes in the country's social structure.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	collapse	collapse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	Trinidad	Trinidad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	agricultural	agricultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	commodities	commodity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Depression	Depression	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	structure	structure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | participle |  | Trinidad's major agricultural commodities *not said here* |  |  |  | the Depression *obl:agent* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | participle |  | the rise of the oil economy *not said here* |  |  |  | to major changes in the country's social structure | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to change=Patient |
| 4 | **collapse** |  | Trinidad's major agricultural commodities |  |  |  |  |  | nom collapse «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **rise** |  | the oil economy |  |  |  |  |  | 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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