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title: However, weaker tourist activity in lower and middle market segments… — Antigua and Barbuda · tree and pragmatics
description: However, weaker tourist activity in lower and middle market segments since the beginning of the year 2000 has slowed the economy and put the government into a tight fiscal corner. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Antigua and Barbuda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Antigua and Barbuda, sentence 174

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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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However, weaker tourist activity in lower and middle market segments since the beginning of the year 2000 has slowed the economy and put the government into a tight fiscal corner.

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**What happens:** slow, put, begin · **To what, where:** weaker tourist activity, government, tight fiscal corner, year

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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:174
# text = However, weaker tourist activity in lower and middle market segments since the beginning of the year 2000 has slowed the economy and put the government into a tight fiscal corner.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
4	tourist	tourist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	segments	segment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
12	since	since	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	slowed	slow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	fiscal	fiscal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slow** | present · perfect · passive |  | weaker tourist activity in lower middle market segments since the beginning of the year |  |  |  | the economy *obj*; however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive |  | the government |  | a tight fiscal corner |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent government=Goal |
| 3 | **begin** |  |  | the year |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event 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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