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title: The sparse settlement and slow rate of population-increase during Sp… — Trinidad and Tobago · tree and pragmatics
description: The sparse settlement and slow rate of population-increase during Spanish rule (and even later during British rule) made Trinidad one of the less populated colonies of the West Indies, with the least developed plantation infrastructure. Who acts: sparse settlement. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Trinida
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# Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 56

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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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The sparse settlement and slow rate of population-increase during Spanish rule (and even later during British rule) made Trinidad one of the less populated colonies of the West Indies, with the least developed plantation infrastructure.

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**Who acts:** sparse settlement · **What happens:** make, populate, develop · **To what, where:** one, Trinidad

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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 (sparse settlement), 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:56
# text = The sparse settlement and slow rate of population-increase during Spanish rule (and even later during British rule) made Trinidad one of the less populated colonies of the West Indies, with the least developed plantation infrastructure.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sparse	sparse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
18	during	during	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	Trinidad	Trinidad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	populated	populate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Indies	Indy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	advmod	_	_
38	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	amod	_	_
39	plantation	plantation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	infrastructure	infrastructure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the sparse settlement and slow rate of population increase during Spanish rule | one of the populated colonies of the West Indies | Trinidad |  |  | with the developed plantation infrastructure | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset trinidad=Beneficiary one=Product |
| 2 | **populate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | less *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **develop** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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