The Bahamas, sentence 108
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 giving the Bahamas increased control over its own affairs was adopted in 1968.
Who acts: new constitution · What happens: give, increase, adopt · To what, where: Bahamas, control, own affairs, 1968
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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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 | 7 increased | nsubj |
| 4 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 constitution | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bahamas | det |
| 6 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 giving | obj |
| 7 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 increased | obj |
| 9 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 14 adopted | mark |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 affairs | amod |
| 12 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 adopted | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 adopted | aux:pass |
| 14 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 increased | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1968 | case |
| 16 | 1968 | 1968 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 adopted | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | a new constitution not said here | the Bahamas | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bahamas=Theme | ||||
| 2 | increase | past | a new constitution | control | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer control=Patient | ||||
| 3 | adopt | past · passive | constitution's own affairs | 1968 | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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