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title: These geometric shapes, animals, and plant artworks are said to have… — Antigua and Barbuda · tree and pragmatics
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# Antigua and Barbuda, sentence 240

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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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These geometric shapes, animals, and plant artworks are said to have been used for ceremonial or religious purposes.

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**What happens:** say, use · **To what, where:** geometric shapes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:240
# text = These geometric shapes, animals, and plant artworks are said to have been used for ceremonial or religious purposes.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	geometric	geometric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	artworks	artwork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ceremonial	ceremonial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	purposes	purpose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | this geometric shapes and animals |  |  |  | plant artworks *nsubj:pass* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **use** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | for ceremonial or religious purposes | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |

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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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