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title: Benna was widely utilised as a popular communication tool by the beg… — Antigua and Barbuda · tree and pragmatics
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# Antigua and Barbuda, sentence 236

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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 was widely utilised as a popular communication tool by the beginning of the 20th century, disseminating information around the island.

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**Who acts:** beginning · **What happens:** utilise, disseminate, begin · **To what, where:** Benna, information, island, 20th century

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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 (beginning), 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:236
# text = Benna was widely utilised as a popular communication tool by the beginning of the 20th century, disseminating information around the island.
1	Benna	Benna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	utilised	utilise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	communication	communication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tool	tool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	disseminating	disseminate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
19	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utilise** | past · passive | the beginning of the 20th century | Benna |  |  |  | as a popular communication tool; widely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **disseminate** | gerund | the beginning of the 20th century *not said here* | information |  | the island |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent information=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** |  |  | the 20th century |  |  |  |  | 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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