Barbados, sentence 174
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 government has placed a huge emphasis on keeping Barbados clean with the aim of protecting the environment and preserving offshore coral reefs which surround the island.
Who acts: government, aim, offshore coral reefs · What happens: place, keep, protect, preserve, surround · To what, where: huge emphasis, Barbados, environment, offshore coral reefs, island
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 (government, aim, offshore coral reefs), 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 government | det |
| 2 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 placed | aux |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 emphasis | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 emphasis | amod |
| 7 | emphasis | emphasis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obj |
| 8 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 keeping | mark |
| 9 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 placed | advcl |
| 10 | Barbados | Barbados | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 keeping | obj |
| 11 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 keeping | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 aim | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 aim | det |
| 14 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keeping | obl |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 protecting | mark |
| 16 | protecting | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 aim | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 environment | det |
| 18 | environment | environment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 protecting | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 preserving | cc |
| 20 | preserving | preserve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 keeping | conj |
| 21 | offshore | offshore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 reefs | amod |
| 22 | coral | coral | NOUN | _ | 23 reefs | compound |
| 23 | reefs | reef | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 preserving | obj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 surround | nsubj |
| 25 | surround | surround | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 reefs | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 island | det |
| 27 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 surround | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | present · perfect | the government | a huge emphasis | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent emphasis=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | the government not said here | Barbados | with the aim; clean property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barbados=Theme | |||
| 3 | protect | gerund | the aim not said here | the environment | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent environment=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | preserve | gerund | the government not said here | offshore coral reefs | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reef=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | surround | present | offshore coral reefs | the island | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme island=Co-Theme |
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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