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title: It has greatly reduced the travel time between Kingston and Montego… — Kingston, Jamaica · tree and pragmatics
description: It has greatly reduced the travel time between Kingston and Montego Bay from 4 hours to a mere hours. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kingston, Jamaica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kingston, Jamaica, sentence 139

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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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It has greatly reduced the travel time between Kingston and Montego Bay from 4 hours to a mere hours.

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**What happens:** reduce · **To what, where:** section

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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: 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:139
# text = It has greatly reduced the travel time between Kingston and Montego Bay from 4 hours to a mere hours.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	reduced	reduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Kingston	Kingston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Montego	Montego	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	mere	mere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reduce** | present · perfect · passive |  | section |  |  | hour; time | greatly *property* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: subject=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, «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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