Saint Lucia, sentence 62
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.
By that time, people of African ethnicity greatly outnumbered those of ethnic European background.
Who acts: people · What happens: outnumber · To what, where: those
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 (people), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 outnumbered | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 outnumbered | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ethnicity | case |
| 7 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ethnicity | amod |
| 8 | ethnicity | ethnicity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 people | nmod |
| 9 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 10 outnumbered | advmod |
| 10 | outnumbered | outnumber | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 outnumbered | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 background | case |
| 13 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 background | amod |
| 14 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 background | amod |
| 15 | background | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 those | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 outnumbered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | outnumber | past | people of African ethnicity | those of ethnic European background | time | greatly property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
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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