Barbados, sentence 39
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.
One lesser-known source points to earlier revealed works antedating contemporary sources, indicating it could have been the Spanish.
Who acts: revealed works, One known source points · What happens: know, reveal, antedate, indicate, be · To what, where: contemporary sources, point
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 (revealed works, One known source points), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 points | nummod |
| 2 | lesser | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 One | conj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 lesser | punct |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 points | amod |
| 5 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 points | compound |
| 6 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Spanish | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 works | case |
| 8 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 revealed | advmod |
| 9 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 works | amod |
| 10 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 points | nmod |
| 11 | antedating | antedate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 works | acl |
| 12 | contemporary | contemporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sources | amod |
| 13 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 antedating | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 indicating | punct |
| 15 | indicating | indicate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 antedating | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 indicating | obj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 Spanish | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Spanish | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 Spanish | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Spanish | det |
| 21 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 Spanish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | reveal | participle | early property | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | antedate | gerund | revealed works not said here | contemporary sources | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | indicate | gerund | revealed works not said here | point | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is | could · perfect | One known source points to revealed works | spanish property | tree rules |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Barbados», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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