Saint Lucia, sentence 31
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.
Eventually, the French successfully claimed the island in 1650 and they signed a treaty with the Caribs in 1660.
Who acts: French, Islands · What happens: claim, sign · To what, where: island, 1650, treaty, 1660
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 (French, Islands), 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 | Eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 6 claimed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Eventually | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 French | det |
| 4 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 claimed | nsubj |
| 5 | successfully | successfully | ADV | _ | 6 claimed | advmod |
| 6 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 island | det |
| 8 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 claimed | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1650 | case |
| 10 | 1650 | 1650 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 claimed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 signed | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 signed | nsubj |
| 13 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 claimed | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 treaty | det |
| 15 | treaty | treaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 signed | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Caribs | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Caribs | det |
| 18 | Caribs | carib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 signed | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 1660 | case |
| 20 | 1660 | 1660 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 signed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 claimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | past | the French | the island | 1650 | eventually, successfully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent island=Topic | ||
| 2 | sign | past | Islands = island | a treaty | 1660 | with the Caribs | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent treaty=Theme in 1660=Destination |
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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