The Bahamas, sentence 134

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.

All the islands are low and flat, with ridges that usually rise no more than 15 to 20 m. The highest point in the country is Mount Alvernia (formerly Como Hill) on Cat Island at 64 m.

Who acts: islands, ridges, highest point · What happens: be, not rise · To what, where: 15, Cat Island, Mount

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 (islands, ridges, highest point), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 islands	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 islands	det
3	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 low	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 low	cop
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flat	cc
7	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 low	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ridges	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 ridges	case
10	ridges	ridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 low	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 rise	nsubj
12	usually	usually	ADV	_	13 rise	advmod
13	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ridges	acl:relcl
14	no	no	ADV	_	13 rise	advmod
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	17 15	advmod
16	than	than	ADP	_	15 more	fixed
17	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 rise	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 20	case
19	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 15	nmod
20	m.	M.	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 15	nmod:unmarked
21	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 point	det
22	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 point	amod
23	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Mount	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 country	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 country	det
26	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 point	nmod
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 Mount	cop
28	Mount	Mount	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 rise	obl
29	Alvernia	Alvernia	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Mount	flat
30	(	(	PUNCT	_	32 Como	punct
31	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	32 Como	advmod
32	Como	Como	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Mount	appos
33	Hill	Hill	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Como	flat
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 Como	punct
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 Island	case
36	Cat	Cat	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Island	compound
37	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 rise	obl
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 m.	case
39	64	64	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	40 m.	nummod
40	m.	m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rise	obl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	all islands			with ridges; low property	tree rules
2	be		all islands not said here				tree rules
3	not rise	present	ridges	15 to 20 m.	Cat Island	at 64 m.; usually property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on island=Location
4	is a	present	the highest point in the country	Mount			tree rules

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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