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title: The Corporation of Bridgetown thus ceased to exist, and its records… — Bridgetown · tree and pragmatics
description: The Corporation of Bridgetown thus ceased to exist, and its records and paraphernalia were deposited in both the Government Department of Archives and Barbados Museum and Historical Society. Who acts: Corporation, Government Department. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bridgetown» with its dependency tree
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# Bridgetown, sentence 47

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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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The Corporation of Bridgetown thus ceased to exist, and its records and paraphernalia were deposited in both the Government Department of Archives and Barbados Museum and Historical Society.

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**Who acts:** Corporation, Government Department · **What happens:** cease, exist, deposit, record · **To what, where:** records

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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 (Corporation, Government Department), 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:47
# text = The Corporation of Bridgetown thus ceased to exist, and its records and paraphernalia were deposited in both the Government Department of Archives and Barbados Museum and Historical Society.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Corporation	Corporation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Bridgetown	Bridgetown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	paraphernalia	paraphernalia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	deposited	deposit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc:preconj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Government	Government	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl:agent	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Archives	Archive	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Barbados	Barbados	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	Museum	Museum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	Historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | past | the Corporation of Bridgetown |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **exist** | to-infinitive | the Corporation of Bridgetown *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **deposit** | past · passive | the Government Department of Archives and Barbados and Historical Society | Corporation's records and paraphernalia |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **record** |  | Corporation |  |  |  |  |  | nom record «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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