Jamaica, sentence 506
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.
Roger Mais, a journalist, poet, and playwright wrote many short stories, plays, and novels, including The Hills Were Joyful Together (1953), Brother Man (1954), and Black Lightning (1955).
Who acts: Roger, novels · What happens: write, be · To what, where: many short stories, Joyful
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 (Roger, novels), 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 | Roger | Roger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | Mais | Mais | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Roger | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 journalist | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 journalist | det |
| 5 | journalist | journalist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Roger | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 poet | punct |
| 7 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 journalist | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wrote | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wrote | cc |
| 10 | playwright | playwright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrote | nsubj |
| 11 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stories | amod |
| 13 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stories | amod |
| 14 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wrote | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 plays | punct |
| 16 | plays | play | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stories | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 novels | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 novels | cc |
| 19 | novels | novel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 Joyful | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Hills | punct |
| 21 | including | including | ADP | _ | 23 Hills | case |
| 22 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Hills | det |
| 23 | Hills | Hill | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 novels | nmod |
| 24 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Joyful | cop |
| 25 | Joyful | Joyful | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wrote | parataxis |
| 26 | Together | Together | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Joyful | flat |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 1953 | punct |
| 28 | 1953 | 1953 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 Joyful | appos |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 1953 | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Man | punct |
| 31 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Man | compound |
| 32 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Joyful | conj |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 1954 | punct |
| 34 | 1954 | 1954 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 Man | appos |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 1954 | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Lightning | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Lightning | cc |
| 38 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Lightning | compound |
| 39 | Lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrote | obl |
| 40 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 41 1955 | punct |
| 41 | 1955 | 1955 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 Lightning | appos |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 41 1955 | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Roger | many short stories and plays | Black Lightning obl; playwright nsubj | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | novels including the Hills | Joyful and Brother Man | 1953 appos; Brother Man conj | 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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