Saint Kitts and Nevis, sentence 28

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.

Around 100 BCE, the islands saw the arrival of the Saladoid people, a ceramic-using, agricultural society that migrated northward from the Orinoco River region in present-day Venezuela.

Who acts: islands, agricultural society, Saladoid people · What happens: see, use, migrate, arrive · To what, where: arrival, agricultural society, River region

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 (islands, agricultural society, Saladoid 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	Around	around	ADV	_	7 saw	advmod
2	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 BCE	nummod
3	BCE	BCE	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Around	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Around	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 islands	det
6	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 arrival	det
9	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 people	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
12	Saladoid	Saladoid	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 people	compound
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 arrival	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 using	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 using	det
16	ceramic	ceramic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 using	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 ceramic	punct
18	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 saw	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 society	punct
20	agricultural	agricultural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 society	amod
21	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 using	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 migrated	nsubj
23	migrated	migrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 society	acl:relcl
24	northward	northward	ADV	_	23 migrated	advmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	29 region	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 region	det
27	Orinoco	Orinoco	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 River	compound
28	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 region	compound
29	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 migrated	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 day	case
31	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 day	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 present	punct
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 region	nmod
34	Venezuela	Venezuela	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 day	appos
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the islands	the arrival of the Saladoid people		around property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arrival=Stimulus
2	use	gerund	the islands not said here	agricultural society			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent society=Patient
3	migrate	past	agricultural society		the River region in present day	northward property	tree rules
4	arrive		the Saladoid people				nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent

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, «Saint Kitts and Nevis», 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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The tree

Pragmatics

Saint Kitts and Nevis, sentence 28