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title: Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean, covering 10991 sqkm. — Jamaica · tree and pragmatics
description: Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean, covering 10991 sqkm. Who acts: Jamaica, island country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jamaica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jamaica, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«Jamaica»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica), 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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Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean, covering 10991 sqkm.

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**Who acts:** Jamaica, island country · **What happens:** be, cover · **To what, where:** island country, Caribbean, 10991 sqkm

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Jamaica». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jamaica, island country), 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:Jamaica:1
# text = Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean, covering 10991 sqkm.
1	Jamaica	Jamaica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
11	10991	10991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	sqkm	sqkm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Jamaica | a island country |  | the Caribbean |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | gerund | a island country *not said here* | 10991 sqkm |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sqkm=Destination |

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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, «Jamaica», 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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