Kingston, Jamaica, sentence 122
From Wikipedia, «Kingston, 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.
This prominent sculpture comprises two naked black male and female statues gazing to the skies – symbolic of their triumphant rise from the horrors of slavery.
Who acts: prominent sculpture, female statues, skies · What happens: comprise, gaze, rise · To what, where: two naked black male, horrors
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kingston, Jamaica». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prominent sculpture, female statues, skies), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sculpture | det |
| 2 | prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sculpture | amod |
| 3 | sculpture | sculpture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comprises | nsubj |
| 4 | comprises | comprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 male | nummod |
| 6 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 male | amod |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 male | amod |
| 8 | male | male | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comprises | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 statues | cc |
| 10 | female | female | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 statues | compound |
| 11 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 male | conj |
| 12 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 statues | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 skies | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 skies | det |
| 15 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gazing | obl |
| 16 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 symbolic | punct |
| 17 | symbolic | symbolic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 statues | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 rise | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 rise | nmod:poss |
| 20 | triumphant | triumphant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rise | amod |
| 21 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 symbolic | nmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 horrors | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 horrors | det |
| 24 | horrors | horror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rise | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 slavery | case |
| 26 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 horrors | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comprises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comprise | present | this prominent sculpture | two naked black male and female statues and symbolic of skies's triumphant rise from the horrors of slavery | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme male=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | female statues and symbolic of skies's triumphant rise from the horrors of slavery not said here | to the skies | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sky=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rise | skies = sky | the horrors of slavery | nom rise «event intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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