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title: When the English captured Jamaica, most Spanish colonists fled, with… — Jamaica · tree and pragmatics
description: When the English captured Jamaica, most Spanish colonists fled, with the exception of Spanish Jews, who chose to remain. Who acts: English, most Spanish colonists, Spanish Jews. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jamaica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jamaica, sentence 50

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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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When the English captured Jamaica, most Spanish colonists fled, with the exception of Spanish Jews, who chose to remain.

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**Who acts:** English, most Spanish colonists, Spanish Jews · **What happens:** capture, flee, choose, remain, except · **To what, where:** Jamaica, exception, Spanish Jews

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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 (English, most Spanish colonists, Spanish Jews), 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:50
# text = When the English captured Jamaica, most Spanish colonists fled, with the exception of Spanish Jews, who chose to remain.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	captured	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Jamaica	Jamaica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
8	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	colonists	colonist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | past | the English | Jamaica |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jamaica=Theme |
| 2 | **flee** | past | most Spanish colonists | the exception of Spanish Jews |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme exception=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **choose** | past | Spanish Jews |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **remain** | to-infinitive | Spanish Jews *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **except** |  |  | Spanish Jews |  |  |  |  | nom exception «cognition 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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