Barbados, sentence 222
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.
Trade policy has also sought to protect a small number of domestic activities, mostly food production, from foreign competition, while recognising that most domestic needs are best met by imports.
Who acts: imports · What happens: seek, protect, recognise, meet · To what, where: Trade policy, small number, most domestic needs
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 (imports), 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 | Trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 policy | compound |
| 2 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sought | aux |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 sought | advmod |
| 5 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 protect | mark |
| 7 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sought | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 number | amod |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 protect | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 activities | case |
| 12 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 activities | amod |
| 13 | activities | activity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 number | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 production | punct |
| 15 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 17 production | advmod |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 production | compound |
| 17 | production | production | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 activities | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 competition | punct |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 competition | case |
| 20 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 competition | amod |
| 21 | competition | competition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 protect | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 recognising | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 recognising | mark |
| 24 | recognising | recognise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 protect | advcl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 met | mark |
| 26 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 needs | amod |
| 27 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 needs | amod |
| 28 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 met | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 met | aux:pass |
| 30 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 31 met | advmod |
| 31 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 recognising | advcl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 imports | case |
| 33 | imports | import | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 met | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present · perfect · passive | Trade policy | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | protect | to-infinitive | a small number of domestic activities and food production | from foreign competition | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent number=Beneficiary from competition=Theme | ||||
| 3 | recognise | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | meet | present · passive | imports | most domestic needs | well property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-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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