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title: Andrew Holness has served as Prime Minister of Jamaica since March 2… — Jamaica · tree and pragmatics
description: Andrew Holness has served as Prime Minister of Jamaica since March 2016. Who acts: Andrew. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jamaica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jamaica, sentence 15

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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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Andrew Holness has served as Prime Minister of Jamaica since March 2016.

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**Who acts:** Andrew · **What happens:** serve

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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 (Andrew), 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:15
# text = Andrew Holness has served as Prime Minister of Jamaica since March 2016.
1	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Holness	Holness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	7	compound	_	_
7	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Jamaica	Jamaica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	since	since	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | present · perfect | Andrew |  |  |  | since 2016  March | as Prime Minister of Jamaica | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as minister=Attribute |

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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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