Jamaica, sentence 102
From Wikipedia, «Jamaica», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
As part of the British West Indian labour unrest of 1934–39, Jamaica saw numerous strikes, culminating in a strike in 1938 that turned into a riot.
Who acts: Jamaica, strike · What happens: see, culminate, turn · To what, where: numerous strikes, strike, riot
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Jamaica». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jamaica, strike), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 part | case |
| 2 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 unrest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 unrest | det |
| 5 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 unrest | amod |
| 6 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 unrest | nsubj |
| 7 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 unrest | amod |
| 8 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 unrest | compound |
| 9 | unrest | unrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 part | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 1934 | case |
| 11 | 1934 | 1934 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 unrest | nmod |
| 12 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 13 39 | case |
| 13 | 39 | 39 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 1934 | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 part | punct |
| 15 | Jamaica | Jamaica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 strikes | amod |
| 18 | strikes | strike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 saw | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 culminating | punct |
| 20 | culminating | culminate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 saw | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 strike | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 strike | det |
| 23 | strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 culminating | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 1938 | case |
| 25 | 1938 | 1938 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 strike | nmod |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 turned | nsubj |
| 27 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 strike | acl:relcl |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 riot | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 riot | det |
| 30 | riot | riot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 turned | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Jamaica | numerous strikes | as part of the British Indian labour unrest West of 1934 – 39 | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer strike=Stimulus as part=Attribute | |||
| 2 | culminate | gerund | Jamaica not said here | a strike in 1938 | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | a strike in 1938 | a riot | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into riot=Trajectory |
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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