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title: Roger Mais, a journalist, poet, and playwright wrote many short stor… — Jamaica · tree and pragmatics
description: Roger Mais, a journalist, poet, and playwright wrote many short stories, plays, and novels, including The Hills Were Joyful Together (1953), Brother Man (1954), and Black Lightning (1955). Who acts: Roger, novels. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jamaica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jamaica, sentence 506

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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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Roger Mais, a journalist, poet, and playwright wrote many short stories, plays, and novels, including The Hills Were Joyful Together (1953), Brother Man (1954), and Black Lightning (1955).

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**Who acts:** Roger, novels · **What happens:** write, be · **To what, where:** many short stories, Joyful

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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 (Roger, novels), 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:506
# text = Roger Mais, a journalist, poet, and playwright wrote many short stories, plays, and novels, including The Hills Were Joyful Together (1953), Brother Man (1954), and Black Lightning (1955).
1	Roger	Roger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	Mais	Mais	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	journalist	journalist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	playwright	playwright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	plays	play	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	novels	novel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	including	including	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Hills	Hill	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	Were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	Joyful	Joyful	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
26	Together	Together	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	1953	1953	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	1954	1954	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	1955	1955	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Roger | many short stories and plays |  |  |  | Black Lightning *obl*; playwright *nsubj* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | novels including the Hills | Joyful and Brother Man |  |  |  | 1953 *appos*; Brother Man *conj* | 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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