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title: Colloquially, Barbadians refer to their home island as "Bim" or othe… — Barbados · tree and pragmatics
description: Colloquially, Barbadians refer to their home island as "Bim" or other nicknames associated with Barbados, including "Bimshire". Who acts: Barbadians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Barbados» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Barbados, sentence 21

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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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Colloquially, Barbadians refer to their home island as "Bim" or other nicknames associated with Barbados, including "Bimshire".

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**Who acts:** Barbadians · **What happens:** refer, associate · **To what, where:** other nicknames

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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 (Barbadians), 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:21
# text = Colloquially, Barbadians refer to their home island as "Bim" or other nicknames associated with Barbados, including "Bimshire".
1	Colloquially	colloquially	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Barbadians	Barbadian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	refer	refer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Bim	Bim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	nicknames	nickname	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	associated	associate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Barbados	Barbados	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	including	including	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Bimshire	Bimshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present | Barbadians |  |  |  |  | to Barbadians's home island; as Bim or other nicknames; colloquially *property* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to island=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **associate** | participle |  | other nicknames *not said here* |  |  |  | with Barbados | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with barbados=Co-Patient |

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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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