Kingston, Jamaica, sentence 36
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.
One in every four people living in Kingston was white, but there was a large population of free people of colour there too; two out of every five people living in Kingston were free.
Who acts: four people, One, large population, five people, two · What happens: live, be · To what, where: Kingston
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 (four people, One, large population, five people), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 white | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 people | det |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 people | nummod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 people | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Kingston | case |
| 8 | Kingston | Kingston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 living | obl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 white | cop |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 was | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 white | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 population | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 population | amod |
| 17 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 19 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 people | amod |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 population | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 colour | case |
| 22 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 people | nmod |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 colour | advmod |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 was | advmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 two | punct |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 free | nsubj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 people | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 people | case |
| 29 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 people | det |
| 30 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 people | nummod |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 two | nmod |
| 32 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 people | acl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 Kingston | case |
| 34 | Kingston | Kingston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 living | obl |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 free | cop |
| 36 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 white | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 white | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | every four people not said here | Kingston | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kingston=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | One in every four people | white property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | past | a large population of free people of colour | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | live | gerund | every five people not said here | Kingston | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kingston=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | two out every five people | free property | 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, «Kingston, 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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