Saint Lucia, sentence 220
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.
The main secondary language of the island is Saint Lucian Creole (Kwéyòl), a French-based creole spoken by most of the population.
Who acts: main secondary language · What happens: be, base, speak · To what, where: Saint Lucian Creole, based creole · 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 (main secondary language), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 language | det |
| 2 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 language | amod |
| 3 | secondary | secondary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 language | amod |
| 4 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Creole | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 island | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 island | det |
| 7 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 language | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Creole | cop |
| 9 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Creole | compound |
| 10 | Lucian | Lucian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Creole | compound |
| 11 | Creole | Creole | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 Kwéyòl | punct |
| 13 | Kwéyòl | Kwéyòl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Creole | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 Kwéyòl | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 creole | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 creole | det |
| 17 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 based | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 French | punct |
| 19 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 creole | amod |
| 20 | creole | creole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Creole | appos |
| 21 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 creole | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 most | case |
| 23 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 spoken | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 population | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 population | det |
| 26 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 most | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Creole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the main secondary language of the island | Saint Lucian Creole | Kwéyòl appos; a based creole appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | base | participle | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | participle | a based creole not said here | by most of the population | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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