Saint Kitts and Nevis, sentence 184
From Wikipedia, «Saint Kitts and Nevis», 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.
Approximately three-quarters of the population live on Saint Kitts, 15,500 of them in Basseterre.
Who acts: three quarters · What happens: live · To what, where: Saint Kitts
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Saint Kitts and Nevis». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three quarters), 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 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 4 quarters | advmod |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 quarters | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 three | punct |
| 4 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 live | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 population | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 population | det |
| 7 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quarters | nmod |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Kitts | case |
| 10 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Kitts | compound |
| 11 | Kitts | Kitts | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 live | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 15,500 | punct |
| 13 | 15,500 | 15,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 Kitts | list |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 15,500 | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Basseterre | case |
| 17 | Basseterre | Basseterre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Kitts | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | three quarters of the population | Saint Kitts in Basseterre | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on kitts=Location |
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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