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title: Jamaican Patois, also called Jamaican Creole, grew from English mixe… — Accents and dialects around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: Jamaican Patois, also called Jamaican Creole, grew from English mixed with West African languages; it is spoken by millions and has its own grammar; "Mi soon come" means I'll be there soon, though maybe later. Who acts: Jamaican Patois, English, millions, Mi. A sentence of the lesson «Accents and di
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# Accents and dialects around the world, sentence 13

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Jamaican Patois, also called Jamaican Creole, grew from English mixed with West African languages; it is spoken by millions and has its own grammar; "Mi soon come" means I'll be there soon, though maybe later.

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**Who acts:** Jamaican Patois, English, millions, Mi, I · **What happens:** call, grow, mix, speak, have, come · **To what, where:** Jamaican Patois, mix, own grammar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Accents and dialects around the world» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jamaican Patois, English, millions, Mi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:019-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world.lesson:13
# text = Jamaican Patois, also called Jamaican Creole, grew from English mixed with West African languages; it is spoken by millions and has its own grammar; "Mi soon come" means I'll be there soon, though maybe later.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 019-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Jamaican	Jamaican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Patois	Patois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	Jamaican	Jamaican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Creole	Creole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	mixed	mix	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:agent	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	grammar	grammar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Mi	Mi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
34	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
38	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	ccomp	_	_
39	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	though	though	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
42	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	41	advmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | Jamaican Patois *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Jamaican Patois |  |  |  |  | from English | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from english=Patient |
| 3 | **mix** | past | English *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with West African languages | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with language=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive | millions | mix |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | millions *not said here* | mix's own grammar |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grammar=Patient |
| 6 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Mi *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **mean** | present | Mi |  |  |  |  | though *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | future | I |  |  |  |  | soon, there *property* | tree rules |

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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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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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