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title: Barbados joined the short-lived British West Indies Federation from… — Barbados · tree and pragmatics
description: Barbados joined the short-lived British West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962, later gaining full independence on 30 November 1966. Who acts: Barbados. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Barbados» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Barbados, sentence 105

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From Wikipedia, [«Barbados»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados), 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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Barbados joined the short-lived British West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962, later gaining full independence on 30 November 1966.

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**Who acts:** Barbados · **What happens:** join, live, gain · **To what, where:** lived British Indies Federation, 1958, full independence, 30

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Barbados». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbados), 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:Barbados:105
# text = Barbados joined the short-lived British West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962, later gaining full independence on 30 November 1966.
1	Barbados	Barbados	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	amod	_	_
7	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Indies	Indies	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Federation	Federation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1958	1958	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1962	1962	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	gaining	gain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
22	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:unmarked	_	_
23	1966	1966	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past | Barbados | the lived British Indies Federation |  | 1958 to 1962 |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent federation=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **gain** | gerund | Barbados *not said here* | full independence |  | 30  November |  | late *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent independence=Theme on 30=Source |

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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, «Barbados», 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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