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title: This prominent sculpture comprises two naked black male and female s… — Kingston, Jamaica · tree and pragmatics
description: This prominent sculpture comprises two naked black male and female statues gazing to the skies – symbolic of their triumphant rise from the horrors of slavery. Who acts: prominent sculpture, female statues, skies. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kingston, Jamaica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kingston, Jamaica, sentence 122

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From Wikipedia, [«Kingston, Jamaica»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston,_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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This prominent sculpture comprises two naked black male and female statues gazing to the skies – symbolic of their triumphant rise from the horrors of slavery.

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**Who acts:** prominent sculpture, female statues, skies · **What happens:** comprise, gaze, rise · **To what, where:** two naked black male, horrors

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kingston, Jamaica». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prominent sculpture, female statues, skies), 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:Kingston,_Jamaica:122
# text = This prominent sculpture comprises two naked black male and female statues gazing to the skies – symbolic of their triumphant rise from the horrors of slavery.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sculpture	sculpture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comprises	comprise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	symbolic	symbolic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	triumphant	triumphant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	horrors	horror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comprise** | present | this prominent sculpture | two naked black male and female statues and symbolic of skies's triumphant rise from the horrors of slavery |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme male=Pivot |
| 2 | **gaze** | gerund | female statues and symbolic of skies's triumphant rise from the horrors of slavery *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the skies | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sky=Theme |
| 3 | **rise** |  | skies *= sky* |  |  | the horrors of slavery |  |  | nom rise «event intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |

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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, «Kingston, 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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