Antigua and Barbuda, sentence 135
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.
During colonial times, the parishes were governed by parish vestries, however, the parishes now lack any sort of government.
Who acts: parish vestries, parishes · What happens: govern, lack, sort · To what, where: parishes, sort, government
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: who acts (parish vestries, parishes), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 governed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 times | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 parishes | det |
| 6 | parishes | parish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 governed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 governed | aux:pass |
| 8 | governed | govern | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 vestries | case |
| 10 | parish | parish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vestries | compound |
| 11 | vestries | vestry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 governed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lack | punct |
| 13 | however | however | ADV | _ | 18 lack | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 however | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 parishes | det |
| 16 | parishes | parish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lack | nsubj |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 lack | advmod |
| 18 | lack | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 governed | conj |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 sort | det |
| 20 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lack | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 government | case |
| 22 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sort | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 governed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | govern | past · passive | parish vestries | the parishes | time | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | lack | present | the parishes | any sort of government | now | however property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | sort | government | nom sort «cognition 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.
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