The Bahamas, sentence 109
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 1971, the UBP merged with a disaffected faction of the PLP to form a new party, the Free National Movement (FNM), a centre-right party which aimed to counter the growing power of Pindling's PLP.
Who acts: UBP, centre right party · What happens: merge, disaffect, form, aim, counter, grow · To what, where: 1971, new party, growing power
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 (UBP, centre right party), 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 1971 | case |
| 2 | 1971 | 1971 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 merged | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1971 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 UBP | det |
| 5 | UBP | UBP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 merged | nsubj |
| 6 | merged | merge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 faction | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 faction | det |
| 9 | disaffected | disaffect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 faction | amod |
| 10 | faction | faction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 merged | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 PLP | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 PLP | det |
| 13 | PLP | plp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 faction | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 form | mark |
| 15 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 merged | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 party | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 party | amod |
| 18 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 form | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Movement | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Movement | det |
| 21 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Movement | amod |
| 22 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Movement | amod |
| 23 | Movement | Movement | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 party | appos |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 FNM | punct |
| 25 | FNM | FNM | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Movement | appos |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 FNM | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 party | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 party | det |
| 29 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 party | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 centre | punct |
| 31 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 party | amod |
| 32 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Movement | appos |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 aimed | nsubj |
| 34 | aimed | aim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 party | acl:relcl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 counter | mark |
| 36 | counter | counter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 aimed | xcomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 power | det |
| 38 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 power | amod |
| 39 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 counter | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 PLP | case |
| 41 | Pindling | Pindling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 PLP | nmod:poss |
| 42 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 41 Pindling | case |
| 43 | PLP | PLP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 power | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 merged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | merge | past | the UBP | 1971 | with a disaffected faction of the PLP | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with faction=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | disaffect | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | form | to-infinitive | the UBP not said here | a new party | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location party=Theme | ||||
| 4 | aim | past | a centre right party | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | counter not said to happen | to-infinitive | a centre right party not said here | the growing power of Pindling's PLP | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | ||||
| 6 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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