The Bahamas, sentence 107
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 1968 Pindling announced that the Bahamas would seek full independence.
Who acts: Pindling, Bahamas · What happens: announce, seek · To what, where: 1968, full independence · 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 (Pindling, Bahamas), 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 1968 | case |
| 2 | 1968 | 1968 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 announced | obl |
| 3 | Pindling | Pindling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 announced | nsubj |
| 4 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 seek | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bahamas | det |
| 7 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 seek | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 seek | aux |
| 9 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 announced | ccomp |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 independence | amod |
| 11 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seek | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | Pindling | 1968 | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | seek | would | the Bahamas | full independence | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=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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