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title: Ferry service also exists between Basseterre and Oranjestad, Statia… — Basseterre · tree and pragmatics
description: Ferry service also exists between Basseterre and Oranjestad, Statia as well as to St. Maarten, but the trips are irregular and infrequent. Who acts: Ferry service, trips. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Basseterre» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Basseterre, sentence 96

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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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Ferry service also exists between Basseterre and Oranjestad, Statia as well as to St. Maarten, but the trips are irregular and infrequent.

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**Who acts:** Ferry service, trips · **What happens:** exist, be · **To what, where:** Basseterre

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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 (Ferry service, trips), 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:96
# text = Ferry service also exists between Basseterre and Oranjestad, Statia as well as to St. Maarten, but the trips are irregular and infrequent.
1	Ferry	ferry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Basseterre	Basseterre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Oranjestad	Oranjestad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Statia	Statia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	16	cc	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Maarten	Maarten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	trips	trip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	irregular	irregular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	infrequent	infrequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | present | Ferry service |  |  | Basseterre and Oranjestad and Statia as Maarten  St. |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between basseterre=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | the trips |  |  |  |  | irregular *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the trips *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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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