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title: The earthquake survivors set up a camp on the sea front. — Kingston, Jamaica · tree and pragmatics
description: The earthquake survivors set up a camp on the sea front. Who acts: earthquake survivors. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kingston, Jamaica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kingston, Jamaica, sentence 15

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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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The earthquake survivors set up a camp on the sea front.

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**Who acts:** earthquake survivors · **What happens:** set up · **To what, where:** camp, sea front, earthquake survivors

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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 (earthquake survivors), 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:15
# text = The earthquake survivors set up a camp on the sea front.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	survivors	survivor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set up** | participle | the earthquake survivors *not said here* | a camp |  | the sea front |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent camp=Theme on front=Destination |

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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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