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title: Around 100 BCE, the islands saw the arrival of the Saladoid people,… — Saint Kitts and Nevis · tree and pragmatics
description: Around 100 BCE, the islands saw the arrival of the Saladoid people, a ceramic-using, agricultural society that migrated northward from the Orinoco River region in present-day Venezuela. Who acts: islands, agricultural society, Saladoid people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saint Kitts and Nevis» with i
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# Saint Kitts and Nevis, sentence 28

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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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Around 100 BCE, the islands saw the arrival of the Saladoid people, a ceramic-using, agricultural society that migrated northward from the Orinoco River region in present-day Venezuela.

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**Who acts:** islands, agricultural society, Saladoid people · **What happens:** see, use, migrate, arrive · **To what, where:** arrival, agricultural society, River region

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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 (islands, agricultural society, Saladoid people), 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:28
# text = Around 100 BCE, the islands saw the arrival of the Saladoid people, a ceramic-using, agricultural society that migrated northward from the Orinoco River region in present-day Venezuela.
1	Around	around	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	BCE	BCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Saladoid	Saladoid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	ceramic	ceramic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	agricultural	agricultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	migrated	migrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	northward	northward	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	Orinoco	Orinoco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	Venezuela	Venezuela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **see** | past | the islands | the arrival of the Saladoid people |  |  |  | around *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arrival=Stimulus |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | the islands *not said here* | agricultural society |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent society=Patient |
| 3 | **migrate** | past | agricultural society |  |  | the River region in present day |  | northward *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **arrive** |  | the Saladoid people |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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