The Bahamas, sentence 147
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.
This occurred in Freeport on 19 January 1977, when snow mixed with rain was visible in the air for a short time.
Who acts: This, snow · What happens: occur, mix, be · To what, where: Freeport, snow, air
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 (This, snow), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 occurred | nsubj |
| 2 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Freeport | case |
| 4 | Freeport | Freeport | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 occurred | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 19 | case |
| 6 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 occurred | obl |
| 7 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 19 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | 1977 | 1977 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 19 | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 visible | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 visible | advmod |
| 11 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 visible | nsubj |
| 12 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 snow | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 rain | case |
| 14 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mixed | obl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 visible | cop |
| 16 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 occurred | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 air | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 air | det |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 visible | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 22 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 visible | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | This | Freeport | on 19 January | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in freeport=Location | |||
| 2 | mix | participle | snow not said here | with rain | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with rain=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | snow | the air | time | visible property | 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.
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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