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title: Trade policy has also sought to protect a small number of domestic a… — Barbados · tree and pragmatics
description: Trade policy has also sought to protect a small number of domestic activities, mostly food production, from foreign competition, while recognising that most domestic needs are best met by imports. Who acts: imports. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Barbados» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Barbados, sentence 222

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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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Trade policy has also sought to protect a small number of domestic activities, mostly food production, from foreign competition, while recognising that most domestic needs are best met by imports.

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**Who acts:** imports · **What happens:** seek, protect, recognise, meet · **To what, where:** Trade policy, small number, most domestic needs

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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 (imports), 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:222
# text = Trade policy has also sought to protect a small number of domestic activities, mostly food production, from foreign competition, while recognising that most domestic needs are best met by imports.
1	Trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	activities	activity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	competition	competition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	recognising	recognise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
27	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
30	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	31	advmod	_	_
31	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	imports	import	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present · perfect · passive |  | Trade policy |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive |  | a small number of domestic activities and food production |  |  |  | from foreign competition | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent number=Beneficiary from competition=Theme |
| 3 | **recognise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **meet** | present · passive | imports | most domestic needs |  |  |  | well *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent |

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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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