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title: Many slaves dispersed into the mountains, joining the already establ… — Jamaica · tree and pragmatics
description: Many slaves dispersed into the mountains, joining the already established maroon communities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jamaica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jamaica, sentence 52

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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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Many slaves dispersed into the mountains, joining the already established maroon communities.

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**What happens:** disperse, join, establish · **To what, where:** Many slaves, mountains, established maroon communities

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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:52
# text = Many slaves dispersed into the mountains, joining the already established maroon communities.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	dispersed	disperse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	joining	join	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	already	already	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
12	maroon	maroon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disperse** | participle |  | Many slaves *not said here* |  | the mountains |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **join** | gerund |  | the established maroon communities |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent community=Patient |
| 3 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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