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title: In November 1919, the dockworkers went on strike over bad management… — Trinidad and Tobago · tree and pragmatics
description: In November 1919, the dockworkers went on strike over bad management practices, low wages compared to a higher cost of living. Who acts: dockworkers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Trinidad and Tobago» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 95

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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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In November 1919, the dockworkers went on strike over bad management practices, low wages compared to a higher cost of living.

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**Who acts:** dockworkers · **What happens:** go, compare, cost · **To what, where:** strike, low wages, living

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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 (dockworkers), 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:95
# text = In November 1919, the dockworkers went on strike over bad management practices, low wages compared to a higher cost of living.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	1919	1919	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dockworkers	dockworker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	management	management	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	practices	practice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the dockworkers |  |  | strike | november | over bad management practices and low wages | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over practice=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **compare** | participle |  | low wages *not said here* |  |  |  | to a higher cost of living | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **cost** |  |  | living |  |  |  |  | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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