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title: As part of the British West Indian labour unrest of 1934–39, Jamaica… — Jamaica · tree and pragmatics
description: As part of the British West Indian labour unrest of 1934–39, Jamaica saw numerous strikes, culminating in a strike in 1938 that turned into a riot. Who acts: Jamaica, strike. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jamaica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jamaica, sentence 102

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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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As part of the British West Indian labour unrest of 1934–39, Jamaica saw numerous strikes, culminating in a strike in 1938 that turned into a riot.

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**Who acts:** Jamaica, strike · **What happens:** see, culminate, turn · **To what, where:** numerous strikes, strike, riot

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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, strike), 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:102
# text = As part of the British West Indian labour unrest of 1934–39, Jamaica saw numerous strikes, culminating in a strike in 1938 that turned into a riot.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	unrest	unrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1934	1934	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	39	39	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	Jamaica	Jamaica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	strikes	strike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	culminating	culminate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1938	1938	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	riot	riot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Jamaica | numerous strikes |  |  |  | as part of the British Indian labour unrest  West of 1934 – 39 | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer strike=Stimulus as part=Attribute |
| 2 | **culminate** | gerund | Jamaica *not said here* |  |  | a strike in 1938 |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | past | a strike in 1938 |  |  | a riot |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into riot=Trajectory |

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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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