Antigua and Barbuda, sentence 66
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.
Vere Bird Jr., the elder son, was forced to leave the cabinet in 1990 following a scandal in which he was accused of smuggling Israeli weapons to Colombian drug-traffickers.
Who acts: Vere · What happens: force, leave, follow, accuse, smuggle · To what, where: Vere, cabinet, 1990, scandal, Israeli weapons, Colombian drug traffickers
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 (Vere), 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 | Vere | Vere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Vere | flat |
| 3 | Jr. | Jr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Vere | nmod:desc |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 son | det |
| 6 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 son | amod |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Vere | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Vere | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forced | aux:pass |
| 10 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 leave | mark |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 forced | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cabinet | det |
| 14 | cabinet | cabinet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1990 | case |
| 16 | 1990 | 1990 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 leave | obl |
| 17 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 scandal | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 scandal | det |
| 19 | scandal | scandal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 accused | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 accused | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 accused | aux:pass |
| 24 | accused | accuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 scandal | acl:relcl |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 smuggling | mark |
| 26 | smuggling | smuggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 accused | advcl |
| 27 | Israeli | Israeli | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 weapons | amod |
| 28 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 smuggling | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 traffickers | case |
| 30 | Colombian | colombian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 traffickers | amod |
| 31 | drug | drug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 traffickers | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 drug | punct |
| 33 | traffickers | trafficker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 smuggling | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past · passive | Vere Jr. | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | Vere Jr. not said here | the cabinet | 1990 | follow a scandal | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cabinet=Theme in 1990=Location | ||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | accuse | past · passive | Vere | a scandal | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | smuggle | gerund | Israeli weapons | Colombian drug traffickers | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme to trafficker=Destination |
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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