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title: Barbados is host to four species of nesting turtles (green turtles,… — Barbados · tree and pragmatics
description: Barbados is host to four species of nesting turtles (green turtles, loggerheads, hawksbill turtles, and leatherbacks) and has the second-largest hawksbill turtle-breeding population in the Caribbean. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Barbados» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Barbados, sentence 185

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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 is host to four species of nesting turtles (green turtles, loggerheads, hawksbill turtles, and leatherbacks) and has the second-largest hawksbill turtle-breeding population in the Caribbean.

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**What happens:** be, nest, have, breed · **To what, where:** Barbados host, second largest hawksbill breeding population, Caribbean

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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: 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:185
# text = Barbados is host to four species of nesting turtles (green turtles, loggerheads, hawksbill turtles, and leatherbacks) and has the second-largest hawksbill turtle-breeding population in the Caribbean.
1	Barbados	barbados	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	nesting	nest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	loggerheads	loggerhead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	hawksbill	hawksbill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	leatherbacks	leatherback	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
25	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
28	hawksbill	hawksbill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
29	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	breeding	breed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	amod	_	_
32	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Barbados host |  |  |  | to four species of nesting turtles; leatherbacks *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **nest** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | the second largest hawksbill breeding population |  | the Caribbean |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient |
| 4 | **breed** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | turtle *compound* | tree rules |

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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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