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title: The goal of integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) is to improve… — Jamaica · tree and pragmatics
description: The goal of integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) is to improve the quality of life of human communities who depend on coastal resources while maintaining the biological diversity and productivity of coastal ecosystems. Who acts: goal, human communities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jamaica» with 
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# Jamaica, sentence 248

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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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The goal of integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) is to improve the quality of life of human communities who depend on coastal resources while maintaining the biological diversity and productivity of coastal ecosystems.

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**Who acts:** goal, human communities · **What happens:** be, depend, maintain · **To what, where:** biological diversity

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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 (goal, human communities), 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:248
# text = The goal of integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) is to improve the quality of life of human communities who depend on coastal resources while maintaining the biological diversity and productivity of coastal ecosystems.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	integrated	integrated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	management	management	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	ICZM	iczm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	improve	improve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	depend	depend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	maintaining	maintain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	biological	biological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	diversity	diversity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	productivity	productivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	ecosystems	ecosystem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the goal of integrated coastal zone management |  |  |  |  | the quality of life of human communities *obj*; improve *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **depend** | present | human communities |  |  |  |  | on coastal resources | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on resource=Theme |
| 3 | **maintain** | gerund | human communities *not said here* | the biological diversity and productivity of coastal ecosystems |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent diversity=Theme |

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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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