The Bahamas, sentence 11
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.
African slaves and their descendants constituted the majority of the population from this period on.
Who acts: African slaves · What happens: constitute on · To what, where: majority, period
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 (African slaves), 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 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 slaves | amod |
| 2 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 constituted | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 descendants | cc |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 descendants | nmod:poss |
| 5 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 slaves | conj |
| 6 | constituted | constitute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 majority | det |
| 8 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 constituted | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 population | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 population | det |
| 11 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 majority | nmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 period | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 period | det |
| 14 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 constituted | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 constituted | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 constituted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | constitute on | participle | African slaves and slaves's descendants | the majority of the population | this period | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme majority=Pivot |
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