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title: Public buses have a green license plate starting with the letter "H". — Basseterre · tree and pragmatics
description: Public buses have a green license plate starting with the letter "H". Who acts: Public buses, green license plate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Basseterre» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Basseterre, sentence 75

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From Wikipedia, [«Basseterre»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basseterre), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Public buses have a green license plate starting with the letter "H".

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**Who acts:** Public buses, green license plate · **What happens:** have, start · **To what, where:** green license plate

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Basseterre». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Public buses, green license plate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Basseterre:75
# text = Public buses have a green license plate starting with the letter "H".
1	Public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	license	license	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	starting	start	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	H	H	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Public buses | a green license plate |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient |
| 2 | **start** | gerund | a green license plate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the letter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with letter=Subeventuality |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Basseterre», 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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