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title: The main secondary language of the island is Saint Lucian Creole (Kw… — Saint Lucia · tree and pragmatics
description: The main secondary language of the island is Saint Lucian Creole (Kwéyòl), a French-based creole spoken by most of the population. Who acts: main secondary language. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saint Lucia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saint Lucia, sentence 220

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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 main secondary language of the island is Saint Lucian Creole (Kwéyòl), a French-based creole spoken by most of the population.

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**Who acts:** main secondary language · **What happens:** be, base, speak · **To what, where:** Saint Lucian Creole, based creole · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (main secondary language), 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:220
# text = The main secondary language of the island is Saint Lucian Creole (Kwéyòl), a French-based creole spoken by most of the population.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	secondary	secondary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	Lucian	Lucian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Creole	Creole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Kwéyòl	Kwéyòl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	creole	creole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
21	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the main secondary language of the island | Saint Lucian Creole |  |  |  | Kwéyòl *appos*; a based creole *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **base** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  | a based creole *not said here* |  |  |  | by most of the population | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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