The Bahamas, sentence 100
From Wikipedia, «The Bahamas», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The Duke was praised at the time for his efforts to combat poverty on the islands.
What happens: praise, combat · To what, where: Duke, poverty, islands
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «The Bahamas». 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.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Duke | det |
| 2 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 praised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 praised | aux:pass |
| 4 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 praised | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 efforts | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 10 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 praised | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 combat | mark |
| 12 | combat | combat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 praised | advcl |
| 13 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 combat | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 islands | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 islands | det |
| 16 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 combat | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 praised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past · passive | the Duke | time | for Duke's efforts | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for effort=Attribute | |||
| 2 | combat | to-infinitive | poverty | the islands | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poverty=Co-Agent |
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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