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title: One lesser-known source points to earlier revealed works antedating… — Barbados · tree and pragmatics
description: One lesser-known source points to earlier revealed works antedating contemporary sources, indicating it could have been the Spanish. Who acts: revealed works, One known source points. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Barbados» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Barbados, sentence 39

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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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One lesser-known source points to earlier revealed works antedating contemporary sources, indicating it could have been the Spanish.

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**Who acts:** revealed works, One known source points · **What happens:** know, reveal, antedate, indicate, be · **To what, where:** contemporary sources, point

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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 (revealed works, One known source points), 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:39
# text = One lesser-known source points to earlier revealed works antedating contemporary sources, indicating it could have been the Spanish.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
2	lesser	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	antedating	antedate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	indicating	indicate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **reveal** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **antedate** | gerund | revealed works *not said here* | contemporary sources |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **indicate** | gerund | revealed works *not said here* | point |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | could · perfect | One known source points to revealed works |  |  |  |  | spanish *property* | 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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