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title: The land narrows considerably in the south-east, forming a much flat… — Saint Kitts and Nevis · tree and pragmatics
description: The land narrows considerably in the south-east, forming a much flatter peninsula which contains the largest body of water, the Great Salt Pond. Who acts: land, flatter peninsula. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saint Kitts and Nevis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saint Kitts and Nevis, sentence 89

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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 land narrows considerably in the south-east, forming a much flatter peninsula which contains the largest body of water, the Great Salt Pond.

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**Who acts:** land, flatter peninsula · **What happens:** narrow, form, contain · **To what, where:** south east, flatter peninsula, largest body

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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 (land, flatter peninsula), 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:89
# text = The land narrows considerably in the south-east, forming a much flatter peninsula which contains the largest body of water, the Great Salt Pond.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	narrows	narrow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	considerably	considerably	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	flatter	flat	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	Salt	Salt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **narrow** | present | the land |  |  | the south east |  | considerably *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **form** | gerund | the land *not said here* | a flatter peninsula |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location peninsula=Theme |
| 3 | **contain** | present | a flatter peninsula | the largest body of water and the Great Salt Pond |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot body=Theme |

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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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