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title: Eventually, Antigua and Barbuda gained full independence on 1 Novemb… — Antigua and Barbuda · tree and pragmatics
description: Eventually, Antigua and Barbuda gained full independence on 1 November 1981; Vere Bird became prime minister of the new country. Who acts: Antigua, Vere Bird. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Antigua and Barbuda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Antigua and Barbuda, sentence 61

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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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Eventually, Antigua and Barbuda gained full independence on 1 November 1981; Vere Bird became prime minister of the new country.

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**Who acts:** Antigua, Vere Bird · **What happens:** gain, become · **To what, where:** full independence, prime minister

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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 (Antigua, Vere Bird), 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:61
# text = Eventually, Antigua and Barbuda gained full independence on 1 November 1981; Vere Bird became prime minister of the new country.
1	Eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Antigua	Antigua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Barbuda	Barbuda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	1981	1981	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	Vere	Vere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | past | Antigua and Barbuda | full independence |  |  | november | eventually *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | Vere Bird | prime minister of the new country |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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