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title: This means they use approximately five times as much biocapacity as… — Barbados · tree and pragmatics
description: This means they use approximately five times as much biocapacity as Barbados contains. Who acts: This, hectares, Barbados. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Barbados» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Barbados, sentence 183

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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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This means they use approximately five times as much biocapacity as Barbados contains.

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**Who acts:** This, hectares, Barbados · **What happens:** mean, use, contain · **To what, where:** much biocapacity · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (This, hectares, 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:183
# text = This means they use approximately five times as much biocapacity as Barbados contains.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	biocapacity	biocapacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	Barbados	Barbados	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | This |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **use** | present | hectares *= hectare* | much biocapacity |  |  | time |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **contain** | present | Barbados |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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