Antigua and Barbuda, sentence 236
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.
Benna was widely utilised as a popular communication tool by the beginning of the 20th century, disseminating information around the island.
Who acts: beginning · What happens: utilise, disseminate, begin · To what, where: Benna, information, island, 20th century
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 (beginning), 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 | Benna | Benna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 utilised | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 utilised | aux:pass |
| 3 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 4 utilised | advmod |
| 4 | utilised | utilise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 tool | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tool | det |
| 7 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tool | amod |
| 8 | communication | communication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tool | compound |
| 9 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 utilised | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 beginning | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beginning | det |
| 12 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 utilised | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 century | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 century | det |
| 15 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 16 century | amod |
| 16 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beginning | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 disseminating | punct |
| 18 | disseminating | disseminate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 utilised | advcl |
| 19 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disseminating | obj |
| 20 | around | around | ADP | _ | 22 island | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 island | det |
| 22 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 information | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 utilised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utilise | past · passive | the beginning of the 20th century | Benna | as a popular communication tool; widely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | disseminate | gerund | the beginning of the 20th century not said here | information | the island | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent information=Theme | |||
| 3 | begin | the 20th century | nom beginning «event 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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