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title: The French later also settled on St Kitts in 1625 under Pierre Belai… — Saint Kitts and Nevis · tree and pragmatics
description: The French later also settled on St Kitts in 1625 under Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saint Kitts and Nevis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saint Kitts and Nevis, sentence 37

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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 French later also settled on St Kitts in 1625 under Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc.

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**What happens:** settle · **To what, where:** St 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: 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:37
# text = The French later also settled on St Kitts in 1625 under Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Kitts	Kitts	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1625	1625	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Pierre	Pierre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	Belain	Belain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	d'Esnambuc	d'esnambuc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | past |  |  |  | St Kitts |  | in 1625; under Pierre d'Esnambuc; late *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1625=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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