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title: The population is primarily Afro-Caribbean (92.5%), with significant… — Saint Kitts and Nevis · tree and pragmatics
description: The population is primarily Afro-Caribbean (92.5%), with significant minorities of European (2.1%) and Indian (1.5%) descent (2001 estimate). Who acts: population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saint Kitts and Nevis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saint Kitts and Nevis, sentence 187

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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 population is primarily Afro-Caribbean (92.5%), with significant minorities of European (2.1%) and Indian (1.5%) descent (2001 estimate).

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**Who acts:** population · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Afro Caribbean

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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 (population), 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:187
# text = The population is primarily Afro-Caribbean (92.5%), with significant minorities of European (2.1%) and Indian (1.5%) descent (2001 estimate).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	Afro	Afro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	92.5	92.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	minorities	minority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	2.1	2.1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	1.5	1.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	26	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	estimate	estimate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the population | Afro Caribbean and significant minorities of European |  |  |  | significant minorities of European *conj*; primarily *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, «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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