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title: The Barbados Defence Force has roughly 800 members. — Barbados · tree and pragmatics
description: The Barbados Defence Force has roughly 800 members. Who acts: Barbados Defence Force. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Barbados» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Barbados, sentence 223

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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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The Barbados Defence Force has roughly 800 members.

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**Who acts:** Barbados Defence Force · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** 800 members

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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 (Barbados Defence Force), 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:223
# text = The Barbados Defence Force has roughly 800 members.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Barbados	Barbados	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Defence	Defence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Force	Force	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	800	800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Barbados Defence Force | 800 members |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=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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