The Bahamas, sentence 149
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.
Much of the natural vegetation is tropical scrub and cactus and succulents are common in landscapes.
Who acts: natural vegetation, Much · What happens: be · To what, where: landscapes
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 (natural vegetation, Much), 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 | Much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 common | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 scrub | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 vegetation | det |
| 4 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 vegetation | amod |
| 5 | vegetation | vegetation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scrub | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 scrub | cop |
| 7 | tropical | tropical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 scrub | amod |
| 8 | scrub | scrub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Much | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cactus | cc |
| 10 | cactus | cactus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scrub | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 succulents | cc |
| 12 | succulents | succulent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 scrub | conj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 common | cop |
| 14 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 landscapes | case |
| 16 | landscapes | landscape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 common | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 common | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the natural vegetation | of tropical scrub and cactus and succulents | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Much | landscapes | common 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.
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