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title: Benna uses a call-and-response format, and its audience is typically… — Antigua and Barbuda · tree and pragmatics
description: Benna uses a call-and-response format, and its audience is typically interested in obscene gossip and rumours. Who acts: Benna, audience. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Antigua and Barbuda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Antigua and Barbuda, sentence 235

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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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Benna uses a call-and-response format, and its audience is typically interested in obscene gossip and rumours.

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**Who acts:** Benna, audience · **What happens:** use, be · **To what, where:** call, obscene gossip

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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 (Benna, audience), 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:235
# text = Benna uses a call-and-response format, and its audience is typically interested in obscene gossip and rumours.
1	Benna	Benna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	format	format	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	typically	typically	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	obscene	obscene	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	rumours	rumour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Benna | a call and response format |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | format's audience |  |  | obscene gossip and rumours |  | interested, typically *property* | tree rules |

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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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