--- title: Each Jamaican generates 1 kg (2 lbs) of waste per day; only 70% of t… — Jamaica · tree and pragmatics description: Each Jamaican generates 1 kg (2 lbs) of waste per day; only 70% of this is collected by National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) — the remaining 30% is either burnt or disposed of in gullies/waterways. Who acts: Jamaican, National Solid Management Authority, remaining. 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Each Jamaican generates 1 kg (2 lbs) of waste per day; only 70% of this is collected by National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) — the remaining 30% is either burnt or disposed of in gullies/waterways. **Who acts:** Jamaican, National Solid Management Authority, remaining · **What happens:** generate, collect, remain, be, dispose · **To what, where:** 1 kg 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 (Jamaican, National Solid Management Authority, remaining), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:246 # text = Each Jamaican generates 1 kg (2 lbs) of waste per day; only 70% of this is collected by National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) — the remaining 30% is either burnt or disposed of in gullies/waterways. 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 Jamaican jamaican NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 generates generate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 kg kg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 lbs lb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 per per ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 nmod _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 collected collect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 23 National national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 24 Solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 Waste Waste PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Management Management PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Authority Authority PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 NSWMA NSWMA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 31 — - PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 33 remaining remain VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 csubj _ _ 34 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 either either CCONJ CC _ 38 cc:preconj _ _ 38 burnt burnt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 disposed dispose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 conj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 gullies/waterways gullies/waterway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **generate** | present | each Jamaican | 1 kg | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kg=Patient | | 2 | **collect** | present · passive | National Solid Management Authority | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 3 | **remain** | gerund | | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Attribute | | 4 | **is** | present | remaining | | | | | burnt *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **dispose** | participle | remaining *not said here* | | | | | of gullies/waterways | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 245](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Jamaica/245/) - next →: [sentence 247](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Jamaica/247/) - ↑ back to [Jamaica](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Jamaica/)