The Bahamas, sentence 13
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.
Slavery in the Bahamas was not abolished until 1834, but in 1818 the Bahamas became a haven of manumission for African slaves from outside the British West Indies.
Who acts: Bahamas · What happens: not abolish, become · To what, where: Slavery, haven, 1818
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 (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 | Slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 abolished | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Bahamas | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bahamas | det |
| 4 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Slavery | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 abolished | aux:pass |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 abolished | advmod |
| 7 | abolished | abolish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | until | until | ADP | _ | 9 1834 | case |
| 9 | 1834 | 1834 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 abolished | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 became | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 became | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1818 | case |
| 13 | 1818 | 1818 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 became | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Bahamas | det |
| 15 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 became | nsubj |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 abolished | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 haven | det |
| 18 | haven | haven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 became | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 manumission | case |
| 20 | manumission | manumission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 haven | nmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 slaves | case |
| 22 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 slaves | amod |
| 23 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 manumission | nmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 Indies | case |
| 25 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 29 Indies | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Indies | det |
| 27 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Indies | amod |
| 28 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Indies | compound |
| 29 | Indies | indy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 slaves | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 abolished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not abolish | past · passive | Slavery in the Bahamas | until 1834 | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the Bahamas | a haven of manumission for African slaves from the British West Indies | in 1818 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1818=Result |
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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