The Bahamas, sentence 105
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 new constitution granting the Bahamas internal autonomy went into effect on 7 January 1964, with Chief Minister Sir Roland Symonette of the UBP becoming the first premier.
Who acts: new constitution, Roland Symonette · What happens: grant, go, become · To what, where: internal autonomy, Bahamas, effect, first premier
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 (new constitution, Roland Symonette), 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 constitution | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 constitution | amod |
| 3 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 4 | granting | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 constitution | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bahamas | det |
| 6 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 granting | obj |
| 7 | internal | internal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 autonomy | amod |
| 8 | autonomy | autonomy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 granting | obj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 effect | case |
| 11 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 7 | case |
| 13 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 7 | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | 1964 | 1964 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 7 | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Symonette | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 Symonette | case |
| 18 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Minister | compound |
| 19 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Roland | nmod:desc |
| 20 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Roland | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Symonette | compound |
| 22 | Symonette | Symonette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 UBP | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 UBP | det |
| 25 | UBP | UBP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Symonette | nmod |
| 26 | becoming | become | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 Symonette | acl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 premier | det |
| 28 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 premier | amod |
| 29 | premier | premier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 becoming | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | gerund | a new constitution not said here | internal autonomy | the Bahamas | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent bahamas=Goal autonomy=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | a new constitution | effect | on 7 January; with Roland Symonette of the UBP | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into effect=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | become | gerund | Roland Symonette of the UBP not said here | the first premier | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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