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title: The Governor-General serves at the pleasure of the Monarch, and usua… — Antigua and Barbuda · tree and pragmatics
description: The Governor-General serves at the pleasure of the Monarch, and usually serves a similar term to that of the Prime Minister. Who acts: Governor General. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Antigua and Barbuda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Antigua and Barbuda, sentence 111

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From Wikipedia, [«Antigua and Barbuda»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua_and_Barbuda), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The Governor-General serves at the pleasure of the Monarch, and usually serves a similar term to that of the Prime Minister.

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**Who acts:** Governor General · **What happens:** serve, please · **To what, where:** pleasure, similar term, that, Monarch

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Antigua and Barbuda». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Governor General), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Antigua_and_Barbuda:111
# text = The Governor-General serves at the pleasure of the Monarch, and usually serves a similar term to that of the Prime Minister.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Governor	Governor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	serves	serve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Monarch	Monarch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	serves	serve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	24	compound	_	_
24	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | present | the Governor General |  |  | the pleasure of the Monarch |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **serve** | present | the Governor General *not said here* | a similar term | that of the Prime Minister |  |  | usually *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent term=Theme to that=Recipient |
| 3 | **please** |  |  | the Monarch |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Antigua and Barbuda», 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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