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title: On June 13, 2025 the House of Representatives approved a government… — Trinidad and Tobago · tree and pragmatics
description: On June 13, 2025 the House of Representatives approved a government motion for Acting Senior Superintendent of Police Allister Guevarro to be Commissioner of Police (CoP). Who acts: House, government motion. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Trinidad and Tobago» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 263

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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 June 13, 2025 the House of Representatives approved a government motion for Acting Senior Superintendent of Police Allister Guevarro to be Commissioner of Police (CoP).

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**Who acts:** House, government motion · **What happens:** approve, act, be · **To what, where:** government motion, Senior Superintendent, Commissioner

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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 (House, government motion), 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:263
# text = On June 13, 2025 the House of Representatives approved a government motion for Acting Senior Superintendent of Police Allister Guevarro to be Commissioner of Police (CoP).
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	2025	2025	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Representatives	Representative	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	approved	approve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	Acting	act	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	Senior	senior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Superintendent	Superintendent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Police	Police	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Allister	Allister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	Guevarro	Guevarro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	Commissioner	commissioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	CoP	cop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approve** | past | the House of Representatives | a government motion |  |  | june |  | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motion=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **act** | gerund | a government motion *not said here* | Senior Superintendent of Police Allister |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent superintendent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | a government motion *not said here* | Commissioner |  |  |  | of Police | 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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