The Bahamas, sentence 103

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.

Ziegler said that the Duke blamed the trouble on "mischief makers – communists" and "men of Central European Jewish descent, who had secured jobs as a pretext for obtaining a deferment of draft".

Who acts: Ziegler, Duke, European Jewish descent · What happens: say, blame, secure, obtain, defer · To what, where: trouble, mischief makers, jobs, deferment, draft · 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 (Ziegler, Duke, European Jewish descent), 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	Ziegler	Ziegler	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 blamed	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Duke	det
5	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 blamed	nsubj
6	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trouble	det
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blamed	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 makers	case
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 makers	punct
11	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 makers	compound
12	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 blamed	obl
13	–	-	PUNCT	_	14 communists	punct
14	communists	communist	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 makers	appos
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 communists	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 men	cc
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 men	punct
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 makers	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 descent	case
20	Central	Central	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 descent	nsubj
21	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 descent	amod
22	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 descent	amod
23	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 men	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 secured	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 secured	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 secured	aux
27	secured	secure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 descent	acl:relcl
28	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 secured	obj
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 pretext	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pretext	det
31	pretext	pretext	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 secured	obl
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 obtaining	mark
33	obtaining	obtain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 secured	advcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 deferment	det
35	deferment	deferment	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 obtaining	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 draft	case
37	draft	draft	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 deferment	nmod
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 deferment	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ziegler				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	blame	past	the Duke	the trouble	mischief makers and men of European Jewish descent		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme
3	secure in a quote	past · perfect	European Jewish descent	jobs		as a pretext	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition job=Theme
4	obtain in a quote	gerund	European Jewish descent not said here	a deferment of draft			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset deferment=Theme
5	defer in a quote			draft			nom deferment «act transitive»: 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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «The Bahamas», 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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