Jamaica, sentence 425
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.
Most were Christian immigrants who fled the Ottoman occupation of Lebanon in the early 19th century.
Who acts: Most Christian immigrants · What happens: be, flee, occupy · To what, where: Most Christian immigrants, Ottoman occupation, Lebanon
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 (Most Christian immigrants), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 immigrants | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 immigrants | cop |
| 3 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 immigrants | amod |
| 4 | immigrants | immigrant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 fled | nsubj |
| 6 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 immigrants | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 occupation | det |
| 8 | Ottoman | ottoman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 occupation | amod |
| 9 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fled | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Lebanon | case |
| 11 | Lebanon | Lebanon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 occupation | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 century | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 century | det |
| 14 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 century | amod |
| 15 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 16 century | amod |
| 16 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 immigrants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Most Christian immigrants | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | flee | past | Most Christian immigrants | the Ottoman occupation of Lebanon | century | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme occupation=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | occupy | Lebanon | nom occupation «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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