Jamaica, sentence 50
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.
When the English captured Jamaica, most Spanish colonists fled, with the exception of Spanish Jews, who chose to remain.
Who acts: English, most Spanish colonists, Spanish Jews · What happens: capture, flee, choose, remain, except · To what, where: Jamaica, exception, Spanish Jews
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 (English, most Spanish colonists, Spanish Jews), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 captured | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 English | det |
| 3 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 captured | nsubj |
| 4 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Jamaica | Jamaica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 captured | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fled | punct |
| 7 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 colonists | amod |
| 8 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 colonists | amod |
| 9 | colonists | colonist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fled | nsubj |
| 10 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 captured | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 exception | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 exception | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 exception | det |
| 14 | exception | exception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fled | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Jews | case |
| 16 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Jews | amod |
| 17 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 exception | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 chose | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 chose | nsubj |
| 20 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Jews | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 remain | mark |
| 22 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 chose | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 captured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture | past | the English | Jamaica | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jamaica=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | most Spanish colonists | the exception of Spanish Jews | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme exception=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | choose | past | Spanish Jews | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | remain | to-infinitive | Spanish Jews not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | except | Spanish Jews | nom exception «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.
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