Jamaica, sentence 416
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.
It is uncommon for Jamaicans to identify themselves by race as is prominent in other countries such as the United States, with most Jamaicans seeing Jamaican nationality as an identity in and of itself, identifying as simply being "Jamaican" regardless of ethnicity.
Who acts: Many, most Jamaicans · What happens: be, identify, see · To what, where: Jamaicans, other countries, Jamaican nationality · 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 (Many, most Jamaicans), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 uncommon | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 uncommon | cop |
| 3 | uncommon | uncommon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Jamaicans | case |
| 5 | Jamaicans | Jamaican | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 uncommon | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 identify | mark |
| 7 | identify | identify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 uncommon | advcl |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 identify | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 race | case |
| 10 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 identify | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 prominent | mark |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 prominent | cop |
| 13 | prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 identify | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 countries | case |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 countries | amod |
| 16 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 prominent | obl |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 21 States | case |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 such | fixed |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 States | det |
| 20 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 States | amod |
| 21 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 countries | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Jamaicans | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Jamaicans | case |
| 24 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 Jamaicans | amod |
| 25 | Jamaicans | Jamaican | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 identify | obl |
| 26 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 Jamaicans | acl |
| 27 | Jamaican | Jamaican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 nationality | amod |
| 28 | nationality | nationality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seeing | obj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 identity | case |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 identity | det |
| 31 | identity | identity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seeing | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 itself | compound:prt |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 itself | cc |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 itself | case |
| 35 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 31 identity | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 identifying | punct |
| 37 | identifying | identify | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 Jamaicans | acl |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 Jamaican | mark |
| 39 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 42 Jamaican | advmod |
| 40 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 Jamaican | cop |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 Jamaican | punct |
| 42 | Jamaican | Jamaican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 identifying | ccomp |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 Jamaican | punct |
| 44 | regardless | regardless | ADV | _ | 46 ethnicity | advmod |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 ethnicity | case |
| 46 | ethnicity | ethnicity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Jamaican | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uncommon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Many | for Jamaicans; uncommon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | identify | to-infinitive | Many not said here | Jamaicans = jamaican | by race; with most Jamaicans | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | Many not said here | other countries such the United States | prominent property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | see | gerund | most Jamaicans not said here | Jamaican nationality | as a identity of Many | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nationality=Stimulus as identity=Attribute | |||
| 5 | identify | gerund | most Jamaicans not said here | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | gerund | most Jamaicans not said here | of ethnicity; jamaican, simply property | tree rules |
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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