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title: Through cultural preservation many residents of Indian descent conti… — Trinidad and Tobago · tree and pragmatics
description: Through cultural preservation many residents of Indian descent continue to maintain traditions from their ancestral homeland. Who acts: many residents. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Trinidad and Tobago» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 400

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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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Through cultural preservation many residents of Indian descent continue to maintain traditions from their ancestral homeland.

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**Who acts:** many residents · **What happens:** continue, maintain · **To what, where:** cultural preservation, traditions, ancestral homeland

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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 (many residents), 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:400
# text = Through cultural preservation many residents of Indian descent continue to maintain traditions from their ancestral homeland.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	preservation	preservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	continue	continue	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	maintain	maintain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	ancestral	ancestral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	homeland	homeland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | infinitive | many residents of Indian descent |  |  | cultural preservation |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **maintain** | to-infinitive | many residents of Indian descent *not said here* | traditions |  | residents's ancestral homeland |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent tradition=Theme |

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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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