Saint Lucia, sentence 192
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.
Referred to colloquially as Patois ("Patwa"), it is spoken by a majority of the population.
Who acts: majority · What happens: refer, speak · To what, where: language · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (majority), 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 | Referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 Patois | mark |
| 3 | colloquially | colloquially | ADV | _ | 5 Patois | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 Patois | case |
| 5 | Patois | Patois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Referred | obl:agent |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 Patwa | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Patwa | punct |
| 8 | Patwa | Patwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Patois | appos |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Patwa | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 Patwa | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spoken | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 spoken | aux:pass |
| 14 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Patois | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 majority | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 majority | det |
| 17 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spoken | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 population | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 population | det |
| 20 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 majority | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Referred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | participle | Patois obl:agent | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present · passive | a majority of the population | language | 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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