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title: An English ship, the Olive Blossom, arrived in Barbados on 14 May 16… — Barbados · tree and pragmatics
description: An English ship, the Olive Blossom, arrived in Barbados on 14 May 1625; its men took possession of the island in the name of King James I. In 1627, the first permanent settlers arrived from England, and Barbados became an English and later British colony. Who acts: English ship, men, first permanent
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# Barbados, sentence 9

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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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An English ship, the Olive Blossom, arrived in Barbados on 14 May 1625; its men took possession of the island in the name of King James I. In 1627, the first permanent settlers arrived from England, and Barbados became an English and later British colony.

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**Who acts:** English ship, men, first permanent settlers, Barbados · **What happens:** arrive, take, become, possess, name · **To what, where:** Barbados, possession, name, England, English colony, island

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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 (English ship, men, first permanent settlers, Barbados), 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:9
# text = An English ship, the Olive Blossom, arrived in Barbados on 14 May 1625; its men took possession of the island in the name of King James I. In 1627, the first permanent settlers arrived from England, and Barbados became an English and later British colony.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Olive	olive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Barbados	Barbados	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
14	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	1625	1625	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	In	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	1627	1627	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	37	amod	_	_
36	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	Barbados	Barbados	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
45	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
46	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	49	advmod	_	_
49	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	conj	_	_
50	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | a English ship |  |  | Barbados |  | on 14  May | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | ship's men | possession of the island |  | the name of King James I. |  | in 1627 | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent possession=Value in name=Location |
| 3 | **arrive** | past | the first permanent settlers |  |  | England |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from england=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **become** | past | Barbados | a English colony |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **possess** |  |  | the island |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | King James I. |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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