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title: It is not known who chose this name for the island, but it is though… — Saint Kitts and Nevis · tree and pragmatics
description: It is not known who chose this name for the island, but it is thought that white clouds which usually wreathe the top of Nevis Peak reminded someone of the miracle. Who acts: that, top. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saint Kitts and Nevis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saint Kitts and Nevis, sentence 21

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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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It is not known who chose this name for the island, but it is thought that white clouds which usually wreathe the top of Nevis Peak reminded someone of the miracle.

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**Who acts:** that, top · **What happens:** not know, choose, think, cloud, wreathe, remind · **To what, where:** name, white clouds, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (that, top), 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:21
# text = It is not known who chose this name for the island, but it is thought that white clouds which usually wreathe the top of Nevis Peak reminded someone of the miracle.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	ccomp	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	wreathe	wreathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Nevis	Nevis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Peak	Peak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	reminded	remind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
29	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	miracle	miracle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present · passive |  | name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | past |  | this name |  |  |  | for the island; who *nsubj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent name=Theme for island=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | name |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **cloud** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wreathe** | present |  | white clouds |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **remind** *speech: other* | past | the top of Nevis Peak |  | someone of the miracle |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient |

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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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