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title: Most were Christian immigrants who fled the Ottoman occupation of Le… — Jamaica · tree and pragmatics
description: Most were Christian immigrants who fled the Ottoman occupation of Lebanon in the early 19th century. Who acts: Most Christian immigrants. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jamaica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jamaica, sentence 425

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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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Most were Christian immigrants who fled the Ottoman occupation of Lebanon in the early 19th century.

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**Who acts:** Most Christian immigrants · **What happens:** be, flee, occupy · **To what, where:** Most Christian immigrants, Ottoman occupation, Lebanon

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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 (Most Christian immigrants), 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:425
# text = Most were Christian immigrants who fled the Ottoman occupation of Lebanon in the early 19th century.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Most Christian immigrants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **flee** | past | Most Christian immigrants | the Ottoman occupation of Lebanon |  |  | century |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme occupation=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **occupy** |  |  | Lebanon |  |  |  |  | nom occupation «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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