Jamaica, sentence 427
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.
The first wave of English immigrants arrived on the island in 1655 after conquering the Spanish, and they have historically been the dominant group.
Who acts: first wave, immigrants · What happens: arrive, conquer, be, wave · To what, where: island, Spanish, dominant group, English immigrants
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 (first wave, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wave | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 wave | amod |
| 3 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 immigrants | case |
| 5 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 immigrants | amod |
| 6 | immigrants | immigrant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wave | nmod |
| 7 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 island | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 island | det |
| 10 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1655 | case |
| 12 | 1655 | 1655 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 arrived | obl |
| 13 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 conquering | mark |
| 14 | conquering | conquer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 arrived | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Spanish | det |
| 16 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 conquering | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 group | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 group | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 group | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 group | aux |
| 21 | historically | historically | ADV | _ | 25 group | advmod |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 group | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 group | det |
| 24 | dominant | dominant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 group | amod |
| 25 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the first wave of English immigrants | the island | in 1655 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | conquer | gerund | the first wave of English immigrants not said here | the Spanish | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spanish=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present · perfect | immigrants = immigrant | the dominant group | historically property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | wave | English immigrants | nom wave «event 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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