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title: They were brought in as indentured labourers and soldiers after the… — Jamaica · tree and pragmatics
description: They were brought in as indentured labourers and soldiers after the conquest of 1655. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jamaica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jamaica, sentence 62

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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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They were brought in as indentured labourers and soldiers after the conquest of 1655.

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**What happens:** bring in, indenture · **To what, where:** thirds

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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:62
# text = They were brought in as indentured labourers and soldiers after the conquest of 1655.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	indentured	indenture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	labourers	labourer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1655	1655	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring in** | past · passive |  | thirds *= third* |  |  | after the conquest of 1655 | as indentured labourers and soldiers | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **indenture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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