The Bahamas, sentence 145

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.

Every few decades low temperatures can fall below 10 °C for a few hours when a severe cold outbreak comes down from the North American mainland, however there has never been a frost or freeze recorded in the Bahamian Islands.

Who acts: few decades, severe cold outbreak · What happens: fall, come down, have, not be, freeze, record · To what, where: 10 ° C, North American mainland, frost, Bahamian Islands

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 (few decades, severe cold outbreak), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 decades	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 decades	amod
3	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fall	nsubj
4	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 temperatures	amod
5	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fall	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fall	aux
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	below	below	ADV	_	9 10	advmod
9	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 C	nummod
10	°	°	SYM	_	11 C	compound
11	C	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fall	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 hours	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hours	det
14	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hours	amod
15	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fall	obl
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 comes	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 outbreak	det
18	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 outbreak	amod
19	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 outbreak	amod
20	outbreak	outbreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 comes	nsubj
21	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fall	advcl
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 comes	advmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	27 mainland	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mainland	det
25	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 mainland	compound
26	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mainland	amod
27	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 comes	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 there	punct
29	however	however	ADV	_	30 there	advmod
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 fall	conj
31	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 there	ccomp
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 frost	advmod
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 frost	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 frost	det
35	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 has	obj
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 freeze	cc
37	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 frost	conj
38	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 freeze	xcomp
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 Islands	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Islands	det
41	Bahamian	Bahamian	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Islands	compound
42	Islands	Island	PROPN	Number=Plur	38 recorded	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	can	every few decades	10 ° C		hour		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come down	present	a severe cold outbreak		the North American mainland		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mainland=Initial_Location
3	have	present	every few decades not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not is a	participle		a frost				tree rules
5	freeze	infinitive						tree rules
6	record	participle			the Bahamian Islands			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «The Bahamas», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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