Barbados, sentence 130
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.
The commission was given a 15-month timeline to complete its work, which included consulting the public about the new republic and drafting a constitution.
Who acts: work, timeline · What happens: give, complete, include, consult, draft, work · To what, where: commission, work, public, constitution
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 (work, timeline), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 commission | det |
| 2 | commission | commission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 timeline | det |
| 6 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 month | nummod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 15 | punct |
| 8 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 timeline | compound |
| 9 | timeline | timeline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 complete | mark |
| 11 | complete | complete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 timeline | acl |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 work | nmod:poss |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 complete | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 included | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 included | nsubj |
| 16 | included | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 work | acl:relcl |
| 17 | consulting | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 included | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 public | det |
| 19 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 consulting | obj |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 republic | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 republic | det |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 republic | amod |
| 23 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 consulting | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 drafting | cc |
| 25 | drafting | draft | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 consulting | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 constitution | det |
| 27 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drafting | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | the commission | a month timeline obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient timeline=Theme | ||||
| 2 | complete | to-infinitive | timeline's work | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | include | past | timeline's work | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | consult | gerund | timeline's work not said here | the public | about the new republic | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent public=Recipient about republic=Topic | |||
| 5 | draft | gerund | timeline's work not said here | a constitution | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitution=Result | ||||
| 6 | work | timeline | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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