Jamaica, sentence 246
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.
Each Jamaican generates 1 kg (2 lbs) of waste per day; only 70% of this is collected by National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) — the remaining 30% is either burnt or disposed of in gullies/waterways.
Who acts: Jamaican, National Solid Management Authority, remaining · What happens: generate, collect, remain, be, dispose · To what, where: 1 kg
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 (Jamaican, National Solid Management Authority, remaining), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 Jamaican | det |
| 2 | Jamaican | jamaican | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 generates | nsubj |
| 3 | generates | generate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 kg | nummod |
| 5 | kg | kg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 generates | obj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 lbs | punct |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 lbs | nummod |
| 8 | lbs | lb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kg | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 lbs | punct |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 waste | case |
| 11 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lbs | nmod |
| 12 | per | per | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waste | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 collected | punct |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 70 | advmod |
| 16 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 % | nummod |
| 17 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 21 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 this | case |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 % | nmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 collected | aux:pass |
| 21 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 generates | parataxis |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 Authority | case |
| 23 | National | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Authority | amod |
| 24 | Solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Authority | amod |
| 25 | Waste | Waste | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Management | compound |
| 26 | Management | Management | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Authority | compound |
| 27 | Authority | Authority | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 collected | obl |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 NSWMA | punct |
| 29 | NSWMA | NSWMA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Authority | appos |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 NSWMA | punct |
| 31 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 burnt | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 burnt | det |
| 33 | remaining | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 burnt | csubj |
| 34 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 % | nummod |
| 35 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 33 remaining | obj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 burnt | cop |
| 37 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 38 burnt | cc:preconj |
| 38 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 generates | parataxis |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 disposed | cc |
| 40 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 burnt | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 gullies/waterways | case |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 gullies/waterways | case |
| 43 | gullies/waterways | gullies/waterway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 disposed | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 generates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | generate | present | each Jamaican | 1 kg | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kg=Patient | ||||
| 2 | collect | present · passive | National Solid Management Authority | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | remain | gerund | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | remaining | burnt property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dispose | participle | remaining not said here | of gullies/waterways | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Jamaica», 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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