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title: In the case of the United States, about 20,000 Jamaicans per year ar… — Jamaica · tree and pragmatics
description: In the case of the United States, about 20,000 Jamaicans per year are granted permanent residence. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jamaica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jamaica, sentence 436

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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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In the case of the United States, about 20,000 Jamaicans per year are granted permanent residence.

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**What happens:** grant · **To what, where:** 20,000 Jamaicans, case

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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: 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:436
# text = In the case of the United States, about 20,000 Jamaicans per year are granted permanent residence.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	20,000	20000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	Jamaicans	jamaican	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	per	per	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | present · passive |  | 20,000 Jamaicans per year |  | the case of the United States |  | permanent residence *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal residence=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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