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title: The commission was given a 15-month timeline to complete its work, w… — Barbados · tree and pragmatics
description: The commission was given a 15-month timeline to complete its work, which included consulting the public about the new republic and drafting a constitution. Who acts: work, timeline. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Barbados» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Barbados, sentence 130

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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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The commission was given a 15-month timeline to complete its work, which included consulting the public about the new republic and drafting a constitution.

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**Who acts:** work, timeline · **What happens:** give, complete, include, consult, draft, work · **To what, where:** commission, work, public, constitution

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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 (work, timeline), 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:130
# text = The commission was given a 15-month timeline to complete its work, which included consulting the public about the new republic and drafting a constitution.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	commission	commission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	timeline	timeline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	complete	complete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	included	include	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	consulting	consult	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	drafting	draft	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | the commission |  |  |  | a month timeline *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient timeline=Theme |
| 2 | **complete** | to-infinitive |  | timeline's work |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 3 | **include** | past | timeline's work |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **consult** | gerund | timeline's work *not said here* | the public |  |  |  | about the new republic | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent public=Recipient about republic=Topic |
| 5 | **draft** | gerund | timeline's work *not said here* | a constitution |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitution=Result |
| 6 | **work** |  | timeline |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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