The Bahamas, sentence 15
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.
During this period, Bahamians were known to recognise the freedom of slaves carried by the ships of other nations which reached their country.
Who acts: other nations · What happens: know, recognise, carry, reach · To what, where: Bahamians, freedom, slaves, country
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 (other nations), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 period | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 period | det |
| 3 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 known | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 period | punct |
| 5 | Bahamians | Bahamian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 known | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 known | aux:pass |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 recognise | mark |
| 9 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 known | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 freedom | det |
| 11 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 recognise | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 slaves | case |
| 13 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 freedom | nmod |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 slaves | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 ships | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ships | det |
| 17 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carried | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 nations | case |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 nations | amod |
| 20 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ships | nmod |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 reached | nsubj |
| 22 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 nations | acl:relcl |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 country | nmod:poss |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reached | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | Bahamians | during this period | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recognise | to-infinitive | the freedom of slaves | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer freedom=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | carry | participle | slaves not said here | by the ships of other nations | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | other nations | slaves's country | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
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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