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title: She ultimately failed to earn the necessary points for Olympic quali… — Saint Kitts and Nevis · tree and pragmatics
description: She ultimately failed to earn the necessary points for Olympic qualification. Who acts: story. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saint Kitts and Nevis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saint Kitts and Nevis, sentence 231

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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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She ultimately failed to earn the necessary points for Olympic qualification.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** fail, not earn · **To what, where:** necessary points

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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 (story), 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:231
# text = She ultimately failed to earn the necessary points for Olympic qualification.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Olympic	olympic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	qualification	qualification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | past | story |  |  |  |  | ultimately *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **earn** | to-infinitive | story *not said here* | the necessary points |  |  |  | for Olympic qualification | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent point=Theme for qualification=Source |

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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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