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title: Saint Lucia has been able to attract foreign business and investment… — Saint Lucia · tree and pragmatics
description: Saint Lucia has been able to attract foreign business and investment due to its educated workforce and improvements in roads, communications, water supply, sewerage, and port facilities. Who acts: Saint. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saint Lucia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saint Lucia, sentence 145

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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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Saint Lucia has been able to attract foreign business and investment due to its educated workforce and improvements in roads, communications, water supply, sewerage, and port facilities.

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**Who acts:** Saint · **What happens:** be, attract · **To what, where:** foreign business, roads

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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 (Saint), 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:145
# text = Saint Lucia has been able to attract foreign business and investment due to its educated workforce and improvements in roads, communications, water supply, sewerage, and port facilities.
1	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Lucia	Lucia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	educated	educated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	workforce	workforce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	improvements	improvement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	communications	communication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	sewerage	sewerage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	facilities	facility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | Saint |  |  |  |  | port facilities *obl*; able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **attract** | to-infinitive | Saint *not said here* | foreign business and investment |  | roads and communications and water supply and sewerage |  | due investment's educated workforce and improvements | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient |

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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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