Barbados, sentence 43
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 first settlement began on 17 February 1627, near what is now Holetown (formerly Jamestown, after King James I of England), by a group led by John Powell's younger brother, Henry, consisting of 80 settlers and 10 English indentured labourers.
Who acts: first settlement, consisting · What happens: begin, be, lead, consist, indenture · To what, where: 17, Holetown, group, labourers
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 (first settlement, consisting), 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 | 3 settlement | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 settlement | amod |
| 3 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 17 | case |
| 6 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 began | obl |
| 7 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 17 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | 1627 | 1627 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 17 | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 what | case |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 began | parataxis |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Holetown | cop |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 Holetown | advmod |
| 14 | Holetown | Holetown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 Jamestown | punct |
| 16 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 17 Jamestown | advmod |
| 17 | Jamestown | Jamestown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Holetown | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 James | punct |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 James | case |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 James | compound |
| 21 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Holetown | conj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 England | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 England | case |
| 24 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 England | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 group | punct |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 group | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 group | det |
| 29 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | parataxis |
| 30 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 group | acl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 brother | case |
| 32 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 brother | nmod:poss |
| 33 | Powell | Powell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 John | flat |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 John | case |
| 35 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 brother | amod |
| 36 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 led | obl:agent |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Henry | punct |
| 38 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 brother | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 consisting | punct |
| 40 | consisting | consist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 47 indentured | csubj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 settlers | case |
| 42 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 settlers | nummod |
| 43 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 consisting | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 English | cc |
| 45 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 46 English | nummod |
| 46 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 settlers | conj |
| 47 | indentured | indenture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 48 | labourers | labourer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 indentured | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the first settlement | 17 February | what of England I parataxis; a group parataxis | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Holetown and Jamestown and King James | now | Jamestown conj; King James conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lead | participle | a group not said here | John's younger brother obl:agent | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | consist | gerund | of 80 settlers and 10 English | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | indenture | past | consisting | labourers | 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.
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