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title: The government has placed a huge emphasis on keeping Barbados clean… — Barbados · tree and pragmatics
description: The government has placed a huge emphasis on keeping Barbados clean with the aim of protecting the environment and preserving offshore coral reefs which surround the island. Who acts: government, aim, offshore coral reefs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Barbados» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Barbados, sentence 174

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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 government has placed a huge emphasis on keeping Barbados clean with the aim of protecting the environment and preserving offshore coral reefs which surround the island.

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**Who acts:** government, aim, offshore coral reefs · **What happens:** place, keep, protect, preserve, surround · **To what, where:** huge emphasis, Barbados, environment, offshore coral reefs, island

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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 (government, aim, offshore coral reefs), 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:174
# text = The government has placed a huge emphasis on keeping Barbados clean with the aim of protecting the environment and preserving offshore coral reefs which surround the island.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	emphasis	emphasis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	Barbados	Barbados	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	environment	environment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	preserving	preserve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
21	offshore	offshore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	_	23	compound	_	_
23	reefs	reef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	surround	surround	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	island	island	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 | **place** | present · perfect | the government | a huge emphasis |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent emphasis=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | the government *not said here* | Barbados |  |  |  | with the aim; clean *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barbados=Theme |
| 3 | **protect** | gerund | the aim *not said here* | the environment |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent environment=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **preserve** | gerund | the government *not said here* | offshore coral reefs |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reef=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **surround** | present | offshore coral reefs | the island |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme island=Co-Theme |

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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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