Saint Lucia, sentence 79
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 recession, as well as the landfall of Hurricane Tomas in 2010, led to slow economic growth during the early 2010s, although the economy picked up during the later part of the decade and avoided contraction until 2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic caused major economic issues globally.
Who acts: recession, economy, COVID pandemic · What happens: lead, slow, pick up, avoid, cause · To what, where: economic growth, contraction, major economic issues
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 (recession, economy, COVID pandemic), 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 recession | det |
| 2 | recession | recession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 landfall | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 8 landfall | cc |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 as | fixed |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 as | fixed |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 landfall | det |
| 8 | landfall | landfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 recession | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Hurricane | case |
| 10 | Hurricane | Hurricane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 landfall | nmod |
| 11 | Tomas | Tomas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Hurricane | flat |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 2010 | case |
| 13 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 landfall | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 recession | punct |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 slow | mark |
| 17 | slow | slow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 led | xcomp |
| 18 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 growth | amod |
| 19 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slow | obj |
| 20 | during | during | ADP | _ | 23 2010s | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 2010s | det |
| 22 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 2010s | amod |
| 23 | 2010s | 2010 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 17 slow | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 picked | punct |
| 25 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 28 picked | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 economy | det |
| 27 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 picked | nsubj |
| 28 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 led | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 picked | compound:prt |
| 30 | during | during | ADP | _ | 33 part | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 part | det |
| 32 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 part | amod |
| 33 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 picked | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 decade | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 decade | det |
| 36 | decade | decade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 part | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 avoided | cc |
| 38 | avoided | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 picked | conj |
| 39 | contraction | contraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 avoided | obj |
| 40 | until | until | ADP | _ | 41 2020 | case |
| 41 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 avoided | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 caused | punct |
| 43 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 49 caused | mark |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 pandemic | det |
| 45 | COVID | COVID | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 pandemic | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 19 | punct |
| 47 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 45 COVID | flat |
| 48 | pandemic | pandemic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 caused | nsubj |
| 49 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 picked | parataxis |
| 50 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 issues | amod |
| 51 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 issues | amod |
| 52 | issues | issue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 caused | obj |
| 53 | globally | globally | ADV | _ | 49 caused | advmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the recession | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | slow | to-infinitive | the recession not said here | economic growth | during the early 2010s | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent growth=Patient | |||
| 3 | pick up | past | the economy | during the later part of the decade | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | avoid | past | the economy not said here | contraction | until 2020 | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent contraction=Location | |||
| 5 | cause | past | the COVID pandemic | major economic issues | globally property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition issue=Patient |
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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