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title: Approximately three-quarters of the population live on Saint Kitts,… — Saint Kitts and Nevis · tree and pragmatics
description: Approximately three-quarters of the population live on Saint Kitts, 15,500 of them in Basseterre. Who acts: three quarters. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saint Kitts and Nevis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saint Kitts and Nevis, sentence 184

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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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Approximately three-quarters of the population live on Saint Kitts, 15,500 of them in Basseterre.

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**Who acts:** three quarters · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** Saint Kitts

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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 (three quarters), 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:184
# text = Approximately three-quarters of the population live on Saint Kitts, 15,500 of them in Basseterre.
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Kitts	Kitts	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	15,500	15,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	list	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Basseterre	Basseterre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | three quarters of the population |  |  | Saint Kitts in Basseterre |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on kitts=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, «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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