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# Saint Kitts and Nevis, sentence 177

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From Wikipedia, [«Saint Kitts and Nevis»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis), 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 applicant must make at least a minimum investment in either approved real estate; or a donation, known as the Sustainable Island State Contribution (SISC) into the Federal Consolidated Fund; or a donation to an Approved Public Benefactor.

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**Who acts:** applicant · **What happens:** make, approve, know · **To what, where:** minimum investment, least, real estate, donation, Federal Consolidated Fund

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Saint Kitts and Nevis». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (applicant), 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:Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis:177
# text = The applicant must make at least a minimum investment in either approved real estate; or a donation, known as the Sustainable Island State Contribution (SISC) into the Federal Consolidated Fund; or a donation to an Approved Public Benefactor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	applicant	applicant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	nmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	minimum	minimum	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc:preconj	_	_
12	approved	approve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	estate	estate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	donation	donation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	Sustainable	Sustainable	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Contribution	Contribution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	SISC	SISC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	Federal	Federal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	Consolidated	Consolidated	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Fund	Fund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	donation	donation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	Approved	Approved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
42	Public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	Benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | must | the applicant | a minimum investment |  | least |  | a donation *parataxis* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset investment=Product |
| 2 | **approve** | past | the applicant *not said here* | real estate |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent estate=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  | a donation *not said here* |  | the Federal Consolidated Fund |  | as the State Contribution | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as contribution=Attribute |

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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, «Saint Kitts and Nevis», 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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