--- title: The following week, on 12 October 2021, incumbent Governor-General o… — Barbados · tree and pragmatics description: The following week, on 12 October 2021, incumbent Governor-General of Barbados Sandra Mason was jointly nominated by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition as candidate to be the first president of Barbados, and was subsequently elected on 20 October. Who acts: Prime Minister. 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The following week, on 12 October 2021, incumbent Governor-General of Barbados Sandra Mason was jointly nominated by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition as candidate to be the first president of Barbados, and was subsequently elected on 20 October. **Who acts:** Prime Minister · **What happens:** follow, nominate, be, elect · **To what, where:** following week, first president, 20 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 (Prime Minister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:123 # text = The following week, on 12 October 2021, incumbent Governor-General of Barbados Sandra Mason was jointly nominated by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition as candidate to be the first president of Barbados, and was subsequently elected on 20 October. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:unmarked _ _ 8 2021 2021 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 incumbent incumbent NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 11 Governor Governor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 General General PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 Barbados Barbados PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Sandra Sandra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Mason Mason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 19 jointly jointly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 nominated nominate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Prime Prime PROPN NNP _ 24 compound _ _ 24 Minister Minister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Leader Leader PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Opposition opposition NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 candidate candidate NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 cop _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 37 amod _ _ 37 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Barbados Barbados PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux:pass _ _ 43 subsequently subsequently ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 45 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 44 obl _ _ 47 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **nominate** | past · passive | the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition | the following week | | | | as candidate; incumbent Governor General of Sandra Mason *obl*; jointly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as candidate=Attribute | | 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | the first president | | | | of Barbados | tree rules | | 4 | **elect** | past · passive | the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition *not said here* | | | 20 | | subsequently *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Barbados/122/) - next →: [sentence 124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Barbados/124/) - ↑ back to [Barbados](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Barbados/)