--- title: Since independence on 30 November 1966, the Democratic Labour Party… — Barbados · tree and pragmatics description: Since independence on 30 November 1966, the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) has governed from 1966 to 1976; 1986 to 1994; and from 2008 to 2018; and the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) has governed from 1976 to 1986; 1994 to 2008; and from 2018 to present. 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Since independence on 30 November 1966, the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) has governed from 1966 to 1976; 1986 to 1994; and from 2008 to 2018; and the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) has governed from 1976 to 1986; 1994 to 2008; and from 2018 to present. **What happens:** govern, present · **To what, where:** Democratic Labour Party, 1966, Barbados Labour Party, 1976, 2018 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. **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:209 # text = Since independence on 30 November 1966, the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) has governed from 1966 to 1976; 1986 to 1994; and from 2008 to 2018; and the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) has governed from 1976 to 1986; 1994 to 2008; and from 2018 to present. 1 Since since ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 independence independence NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 November November PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ 6 1966 1966 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 Democratic Democratic ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 Labour Labour PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Party Party PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 DLP DLP PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 15 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 governed govern VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 1966 1966 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 1976 1976 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 22 1986 1986 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 1994 1994 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 2008 2008 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 2018 2018 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 Barbados Barbados PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 35 Labour Labour PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 Party Party PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 BLP BLP PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 40 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 governed govern VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 1976 1976 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 obl _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 1986 1986 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ; ; PUNCT : _ 47 punct _ _ 47 1994 1994 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 2008 2008 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ; ; PUNCT : _ 55 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 52 from from ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 2018 2018 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 55 obl _ _ 54 to to ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 present present VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **govern** | present · perfect · passive | | the Democratic Labour Party | | 1966 to 1976 | since independence on 30 November | from 2008 to 2018; 1986 to 1994 *obl*; 1994 to 2008 *obl* | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **govern** | present · perfect · passive | | the Barbados Labour Party | | 1976 to 1986 | | | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **present** | infinitive | | | | 2018 | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 208](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Barbados/208/) - next →: [sentence 210](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Barbados/210/) - ↑ back to [Barbados](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Barbados/)