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description: Tourism is a growing sector, particularly on Tobago, although proportionately it is much less important than in many other Caribbean islands. Who acts: Tourism. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Trinidad and Tobago» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 314

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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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Tourism is a growing sector, particularly on Tobago, although proportionately it is much less important than in many other Caribbean islands.

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**Who acts:** Tourism · **What happens:** grow, be · **To what, where:** growing sector

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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 (Tourism), 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:314
# text = Tourism is a growing sector, particularly on Tobago, although proportionately it is much less important than in many other Caribbean islands.
1	Tourism	tourism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Tobago	Tobago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	proportionately	proportionately	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	Caribbean	caribbean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Tourism | a growing sector and Tobago |  |  |  | Tobago *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | tourism |  |  |  |  | than many other Caribbean islands; important, less, proportionately *property* | 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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