The Bahamas, sentence 161
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.
It is generally believed that the Bahamas were formed approximately 200 million years ago, when Pangaea started to break apart.
Who acts: Pangaea · What happens: believe, form, start, break apart · To what, where: support, Bahamas
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 (Pangaea), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believed | aux:pass |
| 3 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 4 believed | advmod |
| 4 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 formed | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bahamas | det |
| 7 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 formed | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 formed | aux:pass |
| 9 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 believed | advcl |
| 10 | approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 12 million | advmod |
| 11 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 million | compound |
| 12 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 formed | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 started | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 started | advmod |
| 17 | Pangaea | Pangaea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 started | nsubj |
| 18 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believed | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 break | mark |
| 20 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 started | xcomp |
| 21 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 20 break | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present · passive | support | generally property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | form | past · passive | the Bahamas | ago property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | start | past | Pangaea | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | break apart | to-infinitive | Pangaea not said here | apart property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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