--- title: Amidst the backdrop of the rising Black Power movement in 1960s Trin… — Trinidad and Tobago · tree and pragmatics description: Amidst the backdrop of the rising Black Power movement in 1960s Trinidad and Tobago, and following protests, strikes, and a mutiny attempt in April 1970, a more radical opposition emerged in the form of the National Union of Freedom Fighters (NUFF). 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Amidst the backdrop of the rising Black Power movement in 1960s Trinidad and Tobago, and following protests, strikes, and a mutiny attempt in April 1970, a more radical opposition emerged in the form of the National Union of Freedom Fighters (NUFF). **What happens:** rise, follow, emerge, form · **To what, where:** radical opposition, form, Amidst backdrop, National Union 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:127 # text = Amidst the backdrop of the rising Black Power movement in 1960s Trinidad and Tobago, and following protests, strikes, and a mutiny attempt in April 1970, a more radical opposition emerged in the form of the National Union of Freedom Fighters (NUFF). 1 Amidst Amidst PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 backdrop backdrop NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 rising rise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 amod _ _ 7 Black Black ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Power Power PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 1960s 1960s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 9 nmod _ _ 12 Trinidad Trinidad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 Tobago Tobago PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 amod _ _ 18 protests protest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 strikes strike NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 mutiny mutiny NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 attempt attempt NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 1970 1970 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 32 advmod _ _ 32 radical radical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 opposition opposition NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 34 emerged emerge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 National National ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 Union Union PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 Freedom Freedom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 Fighters Fighter PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ _ 45 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 NUFF nuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **emerge** | participle | | a radical opposition *not said here* | | the form of the National Union of Freedom Fighters | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location | | 5 | **form** | | | the National Union of Freedom Fighters | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Trinidad_and_Tobago/126/) - next →: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Trinidad_and_Tobago/128/) - ↑ back to [Trinidad and Tobago](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Trinidad_and_Tobago/)