The Bahamas, sentence 101

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.

A 1991 biography by Philip Ziegler, however, described him as contemptuous of the Bahamians and other non-European peoples of the Empire.

Who acts: 1991 biography · What happens: describe · To what, where: Philip

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: who acts (1991 biography), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 biography	det
2	1991	1991	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 biography	nummod
3	biography	biography	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 described	nsubj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Philip	case
5	Philip	Philip	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 biography	nmod
6	Ziegler	Ziegler	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Philip	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 biography	punct
8	however	however	ADV	_	10 described	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 however	punct
10	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 described	obj
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 contemptuous	case
13	contemptuous	contemptuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 described	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Bahamians	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Bahamians	det
16	Bahamians	Bahamian	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 contemptuous	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 peoples	cc
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 peoples	amod
19	non-European	non-european	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 peoples	amod
20	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Bahamians	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Empire	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Empire	det
23	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 peoples	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 described	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	past	a 1991 biography by Philip	Philip				contemptuous, however property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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