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title: As with most Caribbean islands, cricket is the most popular sport in… — Saint Lucia · tree and pragmatics
description: As with most Caribbean islands, cricket is the most popular sport in Saint Lucia. Who acts: cricket. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saint Lucia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saint Lucia, sentence 235

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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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As with most Caribbean islands, cricket is the most popular sport in Saint Lucia.

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**Who acts:** cricket · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** popular sport, Saint

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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 (cricket), 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:235
# text = As with most Caribbean islands, cricket is the most popular sport in Saint Lucia.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
4	Caribbean	caribbean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	cricket	cricket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	Lucia	Lucia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | cricket | the popular sport |  | Saint |  | as most Caribbean islands | 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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