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# Kingston, Jamaica, sentence 26

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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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In 1755 the governor, Sir Charles Knowles, had decided to transfer the government offices from Spanish Town to Kingston.

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**What happens:** decide, transfer · **To what, where:** Charles, 1755, government offices, Spanish Town

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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:26
# text = In 1755 the governor, Sir Charles Knowles, had decided to transfer the government offices from Spanish Town to Kingston.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1755	1755	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	Knowles	Knowles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	decided	decide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	transfer	transfer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	offices	office	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Kingston	Kingston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past · perfect · passive |  | Charles  Sir |  | 1755  the governor |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **transfer** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the government offices |  | Spanish Town to Kingston |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent office=Theme from town=Initial\_Location |

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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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