--- title: The first settlement began on 17 February 1627, near what is now Hol… — Barbados · tree and pragmatics description: The first settlement began on 17 February 1627, near what is now Holetown (formerly Jamestown, after King James I of England), by a group led by John Powell's younger brother, Henry, consisting of 80 settlers and 10 English indentured labourers. Who acts: first settlement, consisting. 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The first settlement began on 17 February 1627, near what is now Holetown (formerly Jamestown, after King James I of England), by a group led by John Powell's younger brother, Henry, consisting of 80 settlers and 10 English indentured labourers. **Who acts:** first settlement, consisting · **What happens:** begin, be, lead, consist, indenture · **To what, where:** 17, Holetown, group, labourers 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 (first settlement, consisting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:43 # text = The first settlement began on 17 February 1627, near what is now Holetown (formerly Jamestown, after King James I of England), by a group led by John Powell's younger brother, Henry, consisting of 80 settlers and 10 English indentured labourers. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 settlement settlement NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 17 17 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 7 February February PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:unmarked _ _ 8 1627 1627 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 near near ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 parataxis _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 14 Holetown Holetown PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 formerly formerly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 Jamestown Jamestown PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 after after ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 30 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 32 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 33 Powell Powell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 34 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 35 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 amod _ _ 36 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 Henry Henry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 consisting consist VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 47 csubj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 80 80 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 settlers settler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ _ 46 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 47 indentured indenture VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 48 labourers labourer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the first settlement | | | 17 February | | what of England I *parataxis*; a group *parataxis* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **is a** | present | | Holetown and Jamestown and King James | | | now | Jamestown *conj*; King James *conj* | tree rules | | 3 | **lead** | participle | | a group *not said here* | | | | John's younger brother *obl:agent* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 4 | **consist** | gerund | | | | | | of 80 settlers and 10 English | tree rules | | 5 | **indenture** | past | consisting | labourers | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Barbados/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Barbados/44/) - ↑ back to [Barbados](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Barbados/)