Jamaica, sentence 262
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Members of the House (known as Members of Parliament or MPs) are directly elected, and the member of the House of Representatives who, in the governor-general's best judgement, is best able to command the confidence of a majority of the members of that House, is appointed by the governor-general to be the prime minister.
Who acts: governor general · What happens: know, elect, be, command, appoint, confide · To what, where: Members, confidence, prime minister, majority · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (governor general), 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 | Members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 House | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 House | det |
| 4 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Members | nmod |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 known | punct |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Members | advcl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 Members | case |
| 8 | Members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 known | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Parliament | case |
| 10 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Members | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 MPs | cc |
| 12 | MPs | mp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Members | conj |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 known | punct |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 elected | aux:pass |
| 15 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 16 elected | advmod |
| 16 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 member | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 member | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 member | det |
| 20 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 elected | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 House | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 House | det |
| 23 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 member | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Representatives | case |
| 25 | Representatives | Representative | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 member | nmod |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 Representatives | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 judgement | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 judgement | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 general | det |
| 30 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 general | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 governor | punct |
| 32 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 judgement | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 general | case |
| 34 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 judgement | amod |
| 35 | judgement | judgement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 who | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 able | punct |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 able | cop |
| 38 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 able | amod |
| 39 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 elected | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 command | mark |
| 41 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 able | xcomp |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 confidence | det |
| 43 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 command | obj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 majority | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 majority | det |
| 46 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 confidence | nmod |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 members | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 members | det |
| 49 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 majority | nmod |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 House | case |
| 51 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 52 House | det |
| 52 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 members | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 appointed | punct |
| 54 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 appointed | aux:pass |
| 55 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 elected | conj |
| 56 | by | by | ADP | _ | 60 general | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 general | det |
| 58 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 general | compound |
| 59 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 58 governor | punct |
| 60 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 appointed | obl |
| 61 | to | to | PART | _ | 65 minister | mark |
| 62 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 65 minister | cop |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 minister | det |
| 64 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 minister | amod |
| 65 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 appointed | advcl |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 elected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | as Members of Parliament or MPs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as member=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | elect | present · passive | Members of the House | the member of the House of Representatives the member of the House of Representatives the member parataxis; directly property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | command | to-infinitive | the confidence of a majority of the members of that House | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent confidence=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | appoint | present · passive | the governor general | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | the governor general not said here | the prime minister | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | confide | a majority of the members of that House | nom confidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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