Antigua and Barbuda, sentence 117
From Wikipedia, «Antigua and Barbuda», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Ten of the members are appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister, these members being known as government senators.
What happens: appoint, know · To what, where: Ten members, advice, members
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Antigua and Barbuda». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 members | nummod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 members | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 members | det |
| 4 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 appointed | aux:pass |
| 6 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 advice | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 advice | det |
| 9 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appointed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Minister | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Minister | det |
| 12 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 13 Minister | compound |
| 13 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 advice | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 known | punct |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 members | det |
| 16 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 known | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 known | aux:pass |
| 18 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 appointed | conj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 senators | case |
| 20 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 senators | compound |
| 21 | senators | senator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 known | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | present · passive | the Ten members | the advice of the Prime Minister | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund · passive | this members | as government senators | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as senator=Attribute |
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