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title: Chinese-Barbadians are a small portion of Barbados's wider Asian pop… — Barbados · tree and pragmatics
description: Chinese-Barbadians are a small portion of Barbados's wider Asian population. Who acts: Chinese Barbadians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Barbados» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Barbados, sentence 309

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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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Chinese-Barbadians are a small portion of Barbados's wider Asian population.

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**Who acts:** Chinese Barbadians · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** small portion

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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 (Chinese 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:309
# text = Chinese-Barbadians are a small portion of Barbados's wider Asian population.
1	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Barbadians	Barbadian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	Barbados	Barbados	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
12	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Chinese Barbadians | a small portion |  |  |  | of Barbados's wider Asian population | 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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