--- title: In 1664, Thomas Warner (son of Sir Thomas Warner, the governor of St… — Saint Lucia · tree and pragmatics description: In 1664, Thomas Warner (son of Sir Thomas Warner, the governor of St Kitts) claimed Saint Lucia for England but the English fled again in 1666, with the French gaining full control of the island after the signing of the Treaty of Breda. Who acts: Thomas, Saint Lucia. 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In 1664, Thomas Warner (son of Sir Thomas Warner, the governor of St Kitts) claimed Saint Lucia for England but the English fled again in 1666, with the French gaining full control of the island after the signing of the Treaty of Breda. **Who acts:** Thomas, Saint Lucia · **What happens:** claim, flee, sign · **To what, where:** 1664, 1666, Treaty · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Thomas, Saint Lucia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:32 # text = In 1664, Thomas Warner (son of Sir Thomas Warner, the governor of St Kitts) claimed Saint Lucia for England but the English fled again in 1666, with the French gaining full control of the island after the signing of the Treaty of Breda. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1664 1664 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Thomas Thomas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 5 Warner Warner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 Thomas Thomas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Warner Warner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 governor governor NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Kitts Kitts PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 19 claimed claim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 Saint Saint PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Lucia Lucia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 27 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 28 again again ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 1666 1666 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 gaining gaining NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 control control NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 after after ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 signing signing NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 Treaty Treaty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 Breda Breda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | Thomas | | | 1664 | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **flee** | past | Saint Lucia for England but the English | | | 1666 | again | full control the French gaining of the island after the signing of the Treaty of Breda *conj* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sign** | | | the Treaty of Breda | | | | | nom signing «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saint_Lucia/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saint_Lucia/33/) - ↑ back to [Saint Lucia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Saint_Lucia/)