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title: It is uncommon for Jamaicans to identify themselves by race as is pr… — Jamaica · tree and pragmatics
description: It is uncommon for Jamaicans to identify themselves by race as is prominent in other countries such as the United States, with most Jamaicans seeing Jamaican nationality as an identity in and of itself, identifying as simply being "Jamaican" regardless of ethnicity. Who acts: Many, most Jamaicans. A
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# Jamaica, sentence 416

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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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It is uncommon for Jamaicans to identify themselves by race as is prominent in other countries such as the United States, with most Jamaicans seeing Jamaican nationality as an identity in and of itself, identifying as simply being "Jamaican" regardless of ethnicity.

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**Who acts:** Many, most Jamaicans · **What happens:** be, identify, see · **To what, where:** Jamaicans, other countries, Jamaican nationality · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Many, most Jamaicans), 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:416
# text = It is uncommon for Jamaicans to identify themselves by race as is prominent in other countries such as the United States, with most Jamaicans seeing Jamaican nationality as an identity in and of itself, identifying as simply being "Jamaican" regardless of ethnicity.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Jamaicans	Jamaican	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	identify	identify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	Jamaicans	Jamaican	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
26	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	Jamaican	Jamaican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	nationality	nationality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	identifying	identify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	cop	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	Jamaican	Jamaican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
44	regardless	regardless	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	ethnicity	ethnicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Many |  |  |  |  | for Jamaicans; uncommon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **identify** | to-infinitive | Many *not said here* | Jamaicans *= jamaican* |  |  |  | by race; with most Jamaicans | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Many *not said here* |  |  | other countries such the United States |  | prominent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | most Jamaicans *not said here* | Jamaican nationality |  |  |  | as a identity of Many | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nationality=Stimulus as identity=Attribute |
| 5 | **identify** | gerund | most Jamaicans *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund | most Jamaicans *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of ethnicity; jamaican, simply *property* | tree rules |

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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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