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title: Because of this, Saint Lucia's population is predominantly of Africa… — Saint Lucia · tree and pragmatics
description: Because of this, Saint Lucia's population is predominantly of African and mixed descent. Who acts: Lucia population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saint Lucia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saint Lucia, sentence 186

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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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Because of this, Saint Lucia's population is predominantly of African and mixed descent.

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**Who acts:** Lucia population · **What happens:** be

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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 (Lucia population), 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:186
# text = Because of this, Saint Lucia's population is predominantly of African and mixed descent.
1	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Lucia	Lucia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
10	predominantly	predominantly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	mixed	mixed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Lucia population |  |  |  |  | of African descent; predominantly *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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