Jamaica, sentence 35
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.
His probable landing point was Dry Harbour, called Discovery Bay, and St. Ann's Bay was named "Saint Gloria" by Columbus, as the first sighting of the land.
Who acts: probable landing point, Columbus, Christopher · What happens: be, call, name, point, sight · To what, where: Dry Harbour, Bay, land · 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 (probable landing point, Columbus, Christopher), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 point | nmod:poss |
| 2 | probable | probable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 point | amod |
| 3 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 point | compound |
| 4 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Harbour | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Harbour | cop |
| 6 | Dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Harbour | amod |
| 7 | Harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Harbour | acl |
| 10 | Discovery | Discovery | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bay | compound |
| 11 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 named | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 named | cc |
| 14 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Bay | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Ann | Ann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 St. | flat |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 St. | case |
| 17 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 named | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 named | aux:pass |
| 19 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Harbour | acl |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Gloria | punct |
| 21 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Gloria | compound |
| 22 | Gloria | Gloria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 named | xcomp |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Gloria | punct |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 Columbus | case |
| 25 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 named | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sighting | punct |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 sighting | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sighting | det |
| 29 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 sighting | amod |
| 30 | sighting | sighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 named | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 land | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 land | det |
| 33 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sighting | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Harbour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Christopher's probable landing point | Dry Harbour | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | Dry Harbour not said here | Discovery Bay xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | name | past · passive | Columbus | St.'s Bay | as the first sighting of the land; Saint Gloria xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as sighting=Attribute | |||
| 4 | point | Christopher | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | sight | the land | nom sighting «act 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.
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