Saint Lucia, sentence 30
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 English tried to settle the island again in 1638, but the Caribs continued to be hostile.
Who acts: English, Caribs · What happens: try, settle, continue, be · To what, where: island, 1638
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 (English, Caribs), 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 | 2 English | det |
| 2 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 settle | mark |
| 5 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 island | det |
| 7 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 settle | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 settle | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1638 | case |
| 10 | 1638 | 1638 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 settle | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 continued | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 continued | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Caribs | det |
| 14 | Caribs | carib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 continued | nsubj |
| 15 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 hostile | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hostile | cop |
| 18 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 continued | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the English | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | settle not said to happen | to-infinitive | the English not said here | the island | 1638 | again | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent island=Theme in 1638=Location | ||
| 3 | continue | past | the Caribs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | the Caribs not said here | hostile 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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