Saint Lucia, sentence 186
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.
Because of this, Saint Lucia's population is predominantly of African and mixed descent.
Who acts: Lucia population · What happens: be
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 (Lucia population), 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 | Because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 this | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Because | fixed |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 Lucia | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 this | punct |
| 5 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Lucia | compound |
| 6 | Lucia | Lucia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 population | compound |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Lucia | case |
| 8 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 descent | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 descent | cop |
| 10 | predominantly | predominantly | ADV | _ | 15 descent | advmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 descent | case |
| 12 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 descent | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mixed | cc |
| 14 | mixed | mixed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 African | conj |
| 15 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 descent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Lucia population | of African descent; predominantly property | tree rules |
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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