The Bahamas, sentence 116
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.
Politically, the first two decades were dominated by Pindling's PLP, who went on to win a string of electoral victories.
Who acts: PLP · What happens: dominate, go on, win · To what, where: first two decades, string
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 (PLP), 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 | Politically | politically | ADV | _ | 8 dominated | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Politically | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 decades | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 decades | amod |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 decades | nummod |
| 6 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dominated | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dominated | aux:pass |
| 8 | dominated | dominate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 PLP | case |
| 10 | Pindling | Pindling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 PLP | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Pindling | case |
| 12 | PLP | PLP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dominated | obl:agent |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 PLP | acl:relcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 win | mark |
| 18 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 went | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 string | det |
| 20 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 win | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 victories | case |
| 22 | electoral | electoral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 victories | amod |
| 23 | victories | victory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 string | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dominated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dominate | past · passive | Pindling's PLP | the first two decades | politically property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | go on | past | Pindling's PLP | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | win | to-infinitive | Pindling's PLP not said here | a string of electoral victories | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Eventuality |
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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