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title: The 9/11 attacks in the United States in 2001 killed two Saint Lucia… — Saint Lucia · tree and pragmatics
description: The 9/11 attacks in the United States in 2001 killed two Saint Lucians, and caused an economic slowdown, although moderate growth continued until the Great Recession. Who acts: 9/11 attacks, moderate growth. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Saint Lucia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Saint Lucia, sentence 78

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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 9/11 attacks in the United States in 2001 killed two Saint Lucians, and caused an economic slowdown, although moderate growth continued until the Great Recession.

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**Who acts:** 9/11 attacks, moderate growth · **What happens:** kill, cause, continue · **To what, where:** two Saint Lucians, economic slowdown

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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 (9/11 attacks, moderate growth), 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:78
# text = The 9/11 attacks in the United States in 2001 killed two Saint Lucians, and caused an economic slowdown, although moderate growth continued until the Great Recession.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	9/11	9/11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Lucians	Lucian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	slowdown	slowdown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	moderate	moderate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	until	until	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Recession	recession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past | the 9/11 attacks in the United States in 2001 | two Saint Lucians |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lucian=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | past |  | a economic slowdown |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition slowdown=Patient |
| 3 | **continue** | past | moderate growth |  |  |  | until the Great Recession |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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