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title: Due to heavy French influence, most Christians on the island are Cat… — Saint Lucia · tree and pragmatics
description: Due to heavy French influence, most Christians on the island are Catholics, with 50.6% of the island's residents identifying as such. Who acts: most, residents. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saint Lucia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saint Lucia, sentence 198

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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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Due to heavy French influence, most Christians on the island are Catholics, with 50.6% of the island's residents identifying as such.

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**Who acts:** most, residents · **What happens:** be, identify · **To what, where:** Catholics

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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 (most, residents), 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:198
# text = Due to heavy French influence, most Christians on the island are Catholics, with 50.6% of the island's residents identifying as such.
1	Due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	nsubj	_	_
8	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	Catholics	Catholic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	50.6	50.6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	identifying	identify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | most  Christians on the island | Catholics |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **identify** | gerund | the island's residents *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as such | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as such=Attribute |

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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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