Saint Lucia, sentence 13
From Wikipedia, «Saint Lucia», 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.
On 22 February 1979, Saint Lucia became an independent state, while remaining as a Commonwealth realm.
Who acts: Saint · What happens: become, remain · To what, where: independent state, 22
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Saint Lucia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saint), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 22 | case |
| 2 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 became | obl |
| 3 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 1979 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 1979 | 1979 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 22 | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 22 | punct |
| 6 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 became | nsubj |
| 7 | Lucia | Lucia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Saint | flat |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 state | det |
| 10 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 state | amod |
| 11 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 remaining | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 remaining | mark |
| 14 | remaining | remain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 became | advcl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 realm | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 realm | det |
| 17 | Commonwealth | Commonwealth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 realm | compound |
| 18 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 remaining | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Saint | a independent state | 22 1979 February | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | remain | gerund | Saint not said here | as a Commonwealth realm | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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