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title: After five years of labour, they were given "freedom dues" of about… — Barbados · tree and pragmatics
description: After five years of labour, they were given "freedom dues" of about £10, usually in goods. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Barbados» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Barbados, sentence 52

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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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After five years of labour, they were given "freedom dues" of about £10, usually in goods.

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**What happens:** give · **To what, where:** arrivals, goods

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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: 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:52
# text = After five years of labour, they were given "freedom dues" of about £10, usually in goods.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	dues	due	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	£	£	SYM	$	_	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | arrivals *= arrival* |  | goods | year | freedom dues *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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