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title: The Kalinago (called "Caribs" by the Spanish) visited the island reg… — Barbados · tree and pragmatics
description: The Kalinago (called "Caribs" by the Spanish) visited the island regularly, although there is no evidence of permanent settlement. Who acts: Kalinago, evidence. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Barbados» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Barbados, sentence 37

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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 Kalinago (called "Caribs" by the Spanish) visited the island regularly, although there is no evidence of permanent settlement.

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**Who acts:** Kalinago, evidence · **What happens:** call, visit, be, evidence · **To what, where:** Caribs, island, permanent settlement · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Kalinago, evidence), 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:37
# text = The Kalinago (called "Caribs" by the Spanish) visited the island regularly, although there is no evidence of permanent settlement.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Kalinago	Kalinago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Caribs	carib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
12	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	regularly	regularly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle | the Kalinago *not said here* | Caribs |  |  |  | by the Spanish | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **visit** | past | the Kalinago | the island |  |  |  | regularly *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **be** | present | no evidence of permanent settlement |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **evidence** |  |  | permanent settlement |  |  |  |  | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=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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