The Bahamas, sentence 102
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.
He was praised for his resolution of civil unrest over low wages in Nassau in June 1942, when there was a "full-scale riot".
Who acts: biography · What happens: praise, be, resolve · To what, where: biography, low wages, scale riot, civil unrest · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 praised | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 praised | aux:pass |
| 3 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 resolution | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 resolution | nmod:poss |
| 6 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 praised | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 unrest | case |
| 8 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 unrest | amod |
| 9 | unrest | unrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 resolution | nmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 wages | case |
| 11 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wages | amod |
| 12 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 praised | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Nassau | case |
| 14 | Nassau | Nassau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wages | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 June | case |
| 16 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 riot | obl |
| 17 | 1942 | 1942 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 June | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 was | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 was | advmod |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 riot | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 riot | det |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 riot | punct |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 scale | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 full | punct |
| 26 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 riot | compound |
| 27 | riot | riot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 praised | parataxis |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 riot | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 praised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past · passive | biography | low wages in Nassau | for biography's resolution of civil unrest | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | a scale riot | june | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | resolve | biography | civil unrest | nom resolution «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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