Saint Kitts and Nevis, sentence 63

From Wikipedia, «Saint Kitts and Nevis», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

In the first few decades of the 20th century economic hardship and lack of opportunities led to the growth of a labour movement; the Great Depression prompted sugar workers to go on strike in 1935.

Who acts: Great Depression, labour movement · What happens: lead, prompt, go, lack, grow · To what, where: opportunities, sugar workers, strike

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 (Great Depression, labour movement), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 decades	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 decades	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 decades	amod
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 decades	amod
5	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 hardship	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hardship	det
8	20th	20th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	11 hardship	amod
9	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hardship	compound
10	economic	economic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hardship	amod
11	hardship	hardship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 decades	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lack	cc
13	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hardship	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 opportunities	case
15	opportunities	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lack	nmod
16	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 opportunities	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 growth	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 growth	det
19	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 led	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 movement	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 movement	det
22	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 movement	compound
23	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 growth	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 prompted	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Depression	det
26	Great	Great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Depression	amod
27	Depression	Depression	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 prompted	nsubj
28	prompted	prompt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 decades	conj
29	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 workers	compound
30	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 prompted	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 go	mark
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 prompted	advcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 strike	case
34	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 go	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 1935	case
36	1935	1935	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 go	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 decades	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	participle		opportunities not said here		to the growth of a labour movement	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to growth=Patient
2	prompt	past	the Great Depression	sugar workers			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition worker=Patient
3	go	to-infinitive	the Great Depression not said here		strike	in 1935	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on strike=Location
5	lack			opportunities			nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient
6	grow		a labour movement				nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent

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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Saint Kitts and Nevis, sentence 63