The Bahamas, sentence 16
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.
Today Black Bahamians make up 90 per cent of the population of 400,516.
Who acts: Black Bahamians · What happens: make up · To what, where: 90 per cent
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 (Black Bahamians), 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 | Today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Bahamians | amod |
| 3 | Bahamians | Bahamian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 make | compound:prt |
| 6 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 cent | nummod |
| 7 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cent | compound |
| 8 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 population | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 population | det |
| 11 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cent | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 400,516 | case |
| 13 | 400,516 | 400,516 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 population | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | present | Black Bahamians | 90 per cent of the population of 400,516 | today | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cent=Pivot |
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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