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title: Due to attacks on freedom of the press, self-censorship is common in… — Antigua and Barbuda · tree and pragmatics
description: Due to attacks on freedom of the press, self-censorship is common in the media, especially in the state-controlled Antigua Broadcasting Service. Who acts: controlled Antigua. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Antigua and Barbuda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Antigua and Barbuda, sentence 164

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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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Due to attacks on freedom of the press, self-censorship is common in the media, especially in the state-controlled Antigua Broadcasting Service.

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**Who acts:** controlled Antigua · **What happens:** be, control, broadcast · **To what, where:** media, Service

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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 (controlled Antigua), 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:164
# text = Due to attacks on freedom of the press, self-censorship is common in the media, especially in the state-controlled Antigua Broadcasting Service.
1	Due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	censorship	censorship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	controlled	control	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	Antigua	Antigua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
26	Broadcasting	broadcast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	Service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the media |  | due attacks on freedom of the press and self censorship; in the controlled Antigua; common *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **control** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | state *compound* | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **broadcast** *speech: other* | gerund | the controlled Antigua *not said here* | Service |  |  |  |  | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Topic |

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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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