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title: On 1 August 1973, the country became a founding member state of CARI… — Trinidad and Tobago · tree and pragmatics
description: On 1 August 1973, the country became a founding member state of CARIFTA's successor, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which is a political and economic union between several Caribbean countries and territories. Who acts: country, successor. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Trinidad and Tobago» with its 
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# Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 133

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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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On 1 August 1973, the country became a founding member state of CARIFTA's successor, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which is a political and economic union between several Caribbean countries and territories.

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**Who acts:** country, successor · **What happens:** become, be · **To what, where:** member state, political union

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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 (country, successor), 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:133
# text = On 1 August 1973, the country became a founding member state of CARIFTA's successor, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which is a political and economic union between several Caribbean countries and territories.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	1973	1973	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	founding	founding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	CARIFTA	CARIFTA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	successor	successor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Caribbean	caribbean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	CARICOM	CARICOM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
32	between	between	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	Caribbean	caribbean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the country | a member state of CARIFTA's successor and the Caribbean Community and a political union |  |  | august |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | CARIFTA's successor and the Caribbean Community and a political union | a political union |  |  |  | between several Caribbean countries and territories | 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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