The Bahamas, sentence 14

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.

Africans liberated from illegal slave ships were resettled on the islands by the Royal Navy, while some North American slaves and Seminoles escaped to the Bahamas from Florida.

Who acts: Africans, Royal Navy, North American slaves · What happens: liberate, resettle, escape · To what, where: illegal slave ships, islands, Florida

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 (Africans, Royal Navy, North American slaves), 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	Africans	African	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 liberated	nsubj
2	liberated	liberate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 resettled	mark
4	illegal	illegal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ships	amod
5	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ships	compound
6	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 resettled	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 resettled	aux:pass
8	resettled	resettle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 liberated	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 islands	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 islands	det
11	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 resettled	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 Navy	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Navy	det
14	Royal	Royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Navy	amod
15	Navy	Navy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 resettled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 escaped	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 escaped	mark
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 slaves	det
19	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 slaves	compound
20	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 slaves	amod
21	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 escaped	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Seminoles	cc
23	Seminoles	seminole	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 slaves	conj
24	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 liberated	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 Bahamas	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Bahamas	det
27	Bahamas	Bahamas	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 escaped	obl
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 Florida	case
29	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 escaped	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 liberated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	liberate	past	Africans				vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	resettle	past · passive	the Royal Navy	illegal slave ships	the islands		tree rules
3	escape	past	some North American slaves and Seminoles		Florida	to the Bahamas	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to bahamas=Initial_Location from florida=Destination

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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