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title: Trinidad and Tobago is well known for its African and Indian Caribbe… — Trinidad and Tobago · tree and pragmatics
description: Trinidad and Tobago is well known for its African and Indian Caribbean cultures, reflected in its large and famous Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, Hosay, and Diwali celebrations, as well as being the birthplace of the steelpan, the limbo, and musical styles such as calypso, soca, rapso, chutney music,
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# Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 11

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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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Trinidad and Tobago is well known for its African and Indian Caribbean cultures, reflected in its large and famous Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, Hosay, and Diwali celebrations, as well as being the birthplace of the steelpan, the limbo, and musical styles such as calypso, soca, rapso, chutney music, and chutney soca.

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**Who acts:** Diwali celebrations · **What happens:** know, reflect, be, soca · **To what, where:** Trinidad, African Caribbean cultures, large Trinidad, birthplace

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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 (Diwali celebrations), 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:11
# text = Trinidad and Tobago is well known for its African and Indian Caribbean cultures, reflected in its large and famous Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, Hosay, and Diwali celebrations, as well as being the birthplace of the steelpan, the limbo, and musical styles such as calypso, soca, rapso, chutney music, and chutney soca.
1	Trinidad	trinidad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Tobago	Tobago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
9	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	Caribbean	caribbean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cultures	culture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	Trinidad	Trinidad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Tobago	Tobago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	Carnival	Carnival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Hosay	Hosay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
29	Diwali	diwali	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	celebrations	celebration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	37	cc	_	_
33	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	fixed	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
35	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	cop	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	birthplace	birthplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	steelpan	steelpan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	limbo	limbo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	styles	style	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	appos	_	_
48	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	50	case	_	_
49	as	as	ADP	IN	_	48	fixed	_	_
50	calypso	calypso	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	soca	soca	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	rapso	rapso	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	chutney	chutney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	chutney	chutney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	soca	soca	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive |  | Trinidad and Tobago |  |  |  | for country's African Caribbean cultures; well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **reflect** | participle |  | country's African Caribbean cultures *not said here* |  | country's large Trinidad and Tobago and Hosay |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund | Diwali celebrations as the birthplace *not said here* | the birthplace |  |  |  | of the steelpan and the limbo; musical styles such calypso and soca and rapso and chutney music *appos* | tree rules |
| 4 | **soca** |  | Diwali celebrations as the birthplace |  |  |  |  |  | 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, «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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