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title: However, in 1796 a British expeditionary force landed on Saint Lucia… — Saint Lucia · tree and pragmatics
description: However, in 1796 a British expeditionary force landed on Saint Lucia and recaptured it from the French, during which Castries was burned; the recapture became known as the Second Brigand War. Who acts: British expeditionary force, recapture. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saint Lucia» with its dependenc
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# Saint Lucia, sentence 50

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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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However, in 1796 a British expeditionary force landed on Saint Lucia and recaptured it from the French, during which Castries was burned; the recapture became known as the Second Brigand War.

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**Who acts:** British expeditionary force, recapture · **What happens:** land, recapture, burn, become, know · **To what, where:** 1796, War, French, Castries

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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 (British expeditionary force, recapture), 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:50
# text = However, in 1796 a British expeditionary force landed on Saint Lucia and recaptured it from the French, during which Castries was burned; the recapture became known as the Second Brigand War.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1796	1796	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	expeditionary	expeditionary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	Lucia	Lucia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	recaptured	recapture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	during	during	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
22	Castries	Castries	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	recapture	recapture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
29	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	xcomp	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	Second	Second	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	34	amod	_	_
33	Brigand	Brigand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | past | a British expeditionary force |  |  | 1796 |  | on Saint; however *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in 1796=Destination |
| 2 | **recapture** | past | a British expeditionary force *not said here* | War |  | the French |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from french=Source |
| 3 | **burn** | past · passive |  | Castries |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | past | the recapture |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | participle | the recapture *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the Second Brigand War | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as war=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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