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title: Ten of the members are appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister… — Antigua and Barbuda · tree and pragmatics
description: Ten of the members are appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister, these members being known as government senators. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Antigua and Barbuda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Antigua and Barbuda, sentence 117

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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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Ten of the members are appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister, these members being known as government senators.

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**What happens:** appoint, know · **To what, where:** Ten members, advice, members

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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: 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:117
# text = Ten of the members are appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister, these members being known as government senators.
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	13	compound	_	_
13	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	senators	senator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | present · passive |  | the Ten members |  | the advice of the Prime Minister |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | gerund · passive |  | this members |  |  |  | as government senators | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as senator=Attribute |

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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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