The Bahamas, sentence 106

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.

In 1967 Sir Lynden Pindling of the PLP became the first black premier of the Bahamian colony; in 1968 the title of the position was changed to prime minister.

Who acts: Lynden · What happens: become, change, prime, title · To what, where: first black premier, 1967, title, 1968, minister, position

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 (Lynden), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1967	case
2	1967	1967	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 became	obl
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Lynden	nmod:desc
4	Lynden	Lynden	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 became	nsubj
5	Pindling	Pindling	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Lynden	flat
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 PLP	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 PLP	det
8	PLP	PLP	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Lynden	nmod
9	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 premier	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 premier	amod
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 premier	amod
13	premier	premier	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 became	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 colony	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 colony	det
16	Bahamian	bahamian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 colony	amod
17	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 premier	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 changed	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 1968	case
20	1968	1968	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 changed	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 title	det
22	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 changed	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 position	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 position	det
25	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 title	nmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 changed	aux:pass
27	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 became	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 prime	mark
29	prime	prime	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 changed	advcl
30	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 prime	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	Lynden Sir of the PLP	the first black premier of the Bahamian colony		in 1967 result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1967=Result
2	change	past · passive		the title of the position	1968		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	prime	to-infinitive		minister			tree rules
4	title			the position			nom title «communication 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.

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