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title: However, the group faced increasing pressure from police and securit… — Trinidad and Tobago · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the group faced increasing pressure from police and security forces, leading to the deaths of many members and the eventual suppression of the insurgency by 1974. Who acts: group, many members. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Trinidad and Tobago» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 129

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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, the group faced increasing pressure from police and security forces, leading to the deaths of many members and the eventual suppression of the insurgency by 1974.

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**Who acts:** group, many members · **What happens:** face, increase, lead, die, suppress · **To what, where:** pressure, police, insurgency

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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 (group, many members), 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:129
# text = However, the group faced increasing pressure from police and security forces, leading to the deaths of many members and the eventual suppression of the insurgency by 1974.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	faced	face	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	eventual	eventual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	suppression	suppression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	insurgency	insurgency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	1974	1974	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | past | the group |  |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **increase** | gerund | the group *not said here* | pressure |  | police and security forces |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient pressure=Extent from police=Initial\_State |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund | the group *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the deaths of many members and the eventual suppression of the insurgency; by 1974 | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to death=Patient |
| 4 | **die** |  | many members and the eventual suppression of the insurgency |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **suppress** |  |  | the insurgency |  |  |  |  | nom suppression «process transitive»: of=patient |

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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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