Barbados, sentence 209
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.
Since independence on 30 November 1966, the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) has governed from 1966 to 1976; 1986 to 1994; and from 2008 to 2018; and the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) has governed from 1976 to 1986; 1994 to 2008; and from 2018 to present.
What happens: govern, present · To what, where: Democratic Labour Party, 1966, Barbados Labour Party, 1976, 2018
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: 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 2 independence | case |
| 2 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 governed | obl |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 30 | case |
| 4 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 independence | nmod |
| 5 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 30 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | 1966 | 1966 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 30 | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 independence | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Party | det |
| 9 | Democratic | Democratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Party | amod |
| 10 | Labour | Labour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Party | compound |
| 11 | Party | Party | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 governed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 DLP | punct |
| 13 | DLP | DLP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Party | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 DLP | punct |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 governed | aux |
| 16 | governed | govern | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 1966 | case |
| 18 | 1966 | 1966 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 governed | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 1976 | case |
| 20 | 1976 | 1976 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 1966 | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 1986 | punct |
| 22 | 1986 | 1986 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 governed | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 1994 | case |
| 24 | 1994 | 1994 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 1986 | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 2008 | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 2008 | cc |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 2008 | case |
| 28 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 governed | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 2018 | case |
| 30 | 2018 | 2018 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 2008 | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 governed | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Party | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Party | det |
| 34 | Barbados | Barbados | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Party | compound |
| 35 | Labour | Labour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Party | compound |
| 36 | Party | Party | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 governed | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 BLP | punct |
| 38 | BLP | BLP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Party | appos |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 BLP | punct |
| 40 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 governed | aux |
| 41 | governed | govern | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 governed | conj |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 1976 | case |
| 43 | 1976 | 1976 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 governed | obl |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 1986 | case |
| 45 | 1986 | 1986 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 1976 | nmod |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 1994 | punct |
| 47 | 1994 | 1994 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 governed | obl |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 2008 | case |
| 49 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 47 1994 | nmod |
| 50 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 55 present | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 present | cc |
| 52 | from | from | ADP | _ | 53 2018 | case |
| 53 | 2018 | 2018 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 55 present | obl |
| 54 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 present | case |
| 55 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 governed | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 governed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | govern | present · perfect · passive | the Democratic Labour Party | 1966 to 1976 | since independence on 30 November | from 2008 to 2018; 1986 to 1994 obl; 1994 to 2008 obl | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||
| 2 | govern | present · perfect · passive | the Barbados Labour Party | 1976 to 1986 | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | present | infinitive | 2018 | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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