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title: The agricultural sector was once the main contributor to Saint Lucia… — Saint Lucia · tree and pragmatics
description: The agricultural sector was once the main contributor to Saint Lucia's economy. Who acts: agricultural sector. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saint Lucia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saint Lucia, sentence 155

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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 agricultural sector was once the main contributor to Saint Lucia's economy.

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**Who acts:** agricultural sector · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** main contributor

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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 (agricultural sector), 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:155
# text = The agricultural sector was once the main contributor to Saint Lucia's economy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	agricultural	agricultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	contributor	contributor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Lucia	Lucia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 agricultural sector | the main contributor |  |  |  | to Saint Lucia's economy; once *property* | tree rules |

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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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