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title: These reports formally acknowledged the importance of biodiversity t… — Trinidad and Tobago · tree and pragmatics
description: These reports formally acknowledged the importance of biodiversity to the well-being of the country's people through provision of ecosystem services. Who acts: reports, ecosystem services. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Trinidad and Tobago» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 205

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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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These reports formally acknowledged the importance of biodiversity to the well-being of the country's people through provision of ecosystem services.

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**Who acts:** reports, ecosystem services · **What happens:** acknowledge, be, provide · **To what, where:** importance, provision

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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 (reports, ecosystem services), 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:205
# text = These reports formally acknowledged the importance of biodiversity to the well-being of the country's people through provision of ecosystem services.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	biodiversity	biodiversity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	provision	provision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	ecosystem	ecosystem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **acknowledge** | past | this reports | the importance of biodiversity |  | provision of ecosystem services |  | formally *property* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent importance=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the country's people; the country *nmod:poss*; well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **provide** |  | ecosystem services |  |  |  |  |  | nom provision «communication 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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