Barbados, sentence 105
From Wikipedia, «Barbados», 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.
Barbados joined the short-lived British West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962, later gaining full independence on 30 November 1966.
Who acts: Barbados · What happens: join, live, gain · To what, where: lived British Indies Federation, 1958, full independence, 30
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Barbados». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbados), 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 | Barbados | Barbados | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 joined | nsubj |
| 2 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Federation | det |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lived | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 short | punct |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 Federation | amod |
| 7 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Federation | amod |
| 8 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Indies | compound |
| 9 | Indies | Indies | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Federation | compound |
| 10 | Federation | Federation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 joined | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 1958 | case |
| 12 | 1958 | 1958 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 joined | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 1962 | case |
| 14 | 1962 | 1962 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 1958 | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gaining | punct |
| 16 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 gaining | advmod |
| 17 | gaining | gain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 joined | advcl |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 independence | amod |
| 19 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gaining | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 30 | case |
| 21 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 gaining | obl |
| 22 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 30 | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | 1966 | 1966 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 30 | flat |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | Barbados | the lived British Indies Federation | 1958 to 1962 | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent federation=Patient | |||
| 2 | live | participle | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | gain | gerund | Barbados not said here | full independence | 30 November | late property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent independence=Theme on 30=Source |
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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