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title: From 1980 to 1991, Kingstown saw a 7.81% decline in its population w… — Kingstown · tree and pragmatics
description: From 1980 to 1991, Kingstown saw a 7.81% decline in its population while its suburbs expanded by 25.56%. Who acts: Kingstown, suburbs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kingstown» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kingstown, sentence 22

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From Wikipedia, [«Kingstown»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingstown), 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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From 1980 to 1991, Kingstown saw a 7.81% decline in its population while its suburbs expanded by 25.56%.

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**Who acts:** Kingstown, suburbs · **What happens:** see, expand · **To what, where:** % decline, 1980 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kingstown». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kingstown, suburbs), 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:Kingstown:22
# text = From 1980 to 1991, Kingstown saw a 7.81% decline in its population while its suburbs expanded by 25.56%.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Kingstown	Kingstown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	7.81	7.81	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	decline	decline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	expanded	expand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	25.56	25.56	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Kingstown | a % decline |  | 1980 to 1991 |  | in decline's population | tree rules |
| 2 | **expand** | participle | population's suburbs |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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, «Kingstown», 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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