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title: The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was Saint Lucia's final… — Saint Lucia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was Saint Lucia's final court of appeal until 2023, when a constitutional amendment transferred this to the Caribbean Court of Justice. Who acts: Judicial Committee, constitutional amendment. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saint Lucia» with its dependency tree
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# Saint Lucia, sentence 139

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From Wikipedia, [«Saint Lucia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was Saint Lucia's final court of appeal until 2023, when a constitutional amendment transferred this to the Caribbean Court of Justice.

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**Who acts:** Judicial Committee, constitutional amendment · **What happens:** be, transfer · **To what, where:** final court, this, Caribbean Court

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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 (Judicial Committee, constitutional amendment), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Saint_Lucia:139
# text = The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was Saint Lucia's final court of appeal until 2023, when a constitutional amendment transferred this to the Caribbean Court of Justice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Judicial	judicial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Committee	committee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Privy	Privy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Lucia	Lucia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	appeal	appeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	until	until	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	amendment	amendment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	transferred	transfer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Justice	Justice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council | Saint Lucia's final court |  |  |  | of appeal until 2023; Saint Lucia *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **transfer** | past | a constitutional amendment | this | the Caribbean Court of Justice |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Theme to court=Recipient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Saint Lucia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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