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title: The Prime Minister must be a member of the House of Representatives,… — Antigua and Barbuda · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prime Minister must be a member of the House of Representatives, and must be the member of the House of Representatives who is most likely to command the support of the majority of members. Who acts: Prime Minister, member. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Antigua and Barbuda» with its dependency tree
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# Antigua and Barbuda, sentence 113

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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 Prime Minister must be a member of the House of Representatives, and must be the member of the House of Representatives who is most likely to command the support of the majority of members.

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**Who acts:** Prime Minister, member · **What happens:** be, command, support · **To what, where:** member, support, majority · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Prime Minister, member), 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:113
# text = The Prime Minister must be a member of the House of Representatives, and must be the member of the House of Representatives who is most likely to command the support of the majority of members.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	3	compound	_	_
3	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Representatives	Representative	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Representatives	Representative	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	27	advmod	_	_
27	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | must | the Prime Minister | a member and the member |  |  |  | of the House of Representatives | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | must | the Prime Minister *not said here* | the member |  |  |  | of the House of Representatives | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the member |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **command** | to-infinitive | the member *not said here* | the support of the majority of members |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent support=Eventuality |
| 5 | **support** |  |  | the majority of members |  |  |  |  | nom support «act 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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