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title: Eventually, the French successfully claimed the island in 1650 and t… — Saint Lucia · tree and pragmatics
description: Eventually, the French successfully claimed the island in 1650 and they signed a treaty with the Caribs in 1660. Who acts: French, Islands. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saint Lucia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saint Lucia, sentence 31

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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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Eventually, the French successfully claimed the island in 1650 and they signed a treaty with the Caribs in 1660.

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**Who acts:** French, Islands · **What happens:** claim, sign · **To what, where:** island, 1650, treaty, 1660

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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 (French, Islands), 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:31
# text = Eventually, the French successfully claimed the island in 1650 and they signed a treaty with the Caribs in 1660.
1	Eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	successfully	successfully	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1650	1650	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	treaty	treaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Caribs	carib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1660	1660	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | the French | the island |  | 1650 |  | eventually, successfully *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent island=Topic |
| 2 | **sign** | past | Islands *= island* | a treaty |  | 1660 |  | with the Caribs | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent treaty=Theme in 1660=Destination |

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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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