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title: One in every four people living in Kingston was white, but there was… — Kingston, Jamaica · tree and pragmatics
description: One in every four people living in Kingston was white, but there was a large population of free people of colour there too; two out of every five people living in Kingston were free. Who acts: four people, One, large population, five people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kingston, Jamaica» with its dep
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# Kingston, Jamaica, sentence 36

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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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One in every four people living in Kingston was white, but there was a large population of free people of colour there too; two out of every five people living in Kingston were free.

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**Who acts:** four people, One, large population, five people, two · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** Kingston

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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 (four people, One, large population, five people), 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:36
# text = One in every four people living in Kingston was white, but there was a large population of free people of colour there too; two out of every five people living in Kingston were free.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Kingston	Kingston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nsubj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
30	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
32	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Kingston	Kingston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund | every four people *not said here* |  |  | Kingston |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kingston=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | One in every four people |  |  |  |  | white *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past | a large population of free people of colour |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | gerund | every five people *not said here* |  |  | Kingston |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kingston=Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | two out every five people |  |  |  |  | free *property* | 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, «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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