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title: This proposal did not succeed, but in 1958 the Local Government Act… — Bridgetown · tree and pragmatics
description: This proposal did not succeed, but in 1958 the Local Government Act was passed in Barbados. Who acts: proposal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bridgetown» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bridgetown, sentence 41

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From Wikipedia, [«Bridgetown»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgetown), 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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This proposal did not succeed, but in 1958 the Local Government Act was passed in Barbados.

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**Who acts:** proposal · **What happens:** not succeed, pass · **To what, where:** Local Government Act, 1958

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bridgetown». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proposal), 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:Bridgetown:41
# text = This proposal did not succeed, but in 1958 the Local Government Act was passed in Barbados.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1958	1958	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Government	Government	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Barbados	Barbados	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **succeed** | past · do-support | this proposal |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** | past · passive |  | the Local Government Act |  | 1958 |  | in Barbados | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in 1958=Destination |

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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, «Bridgetown», 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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