The Bahamas, sentence 163

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.

The limestone that comprises the Banks has been accumulating since at least the Cretaceous period, and perhaps as early as the Jurassic; today the total thickness under the Great Bahama Bank is over 4.5 kilometres (2.8 miles).

Who acts: limestone, total thickness · What happens: comprise, accumulate, be · To what, where: Banks, 4.5 kilometres

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 (limestone, total thickness), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 limestone	det
2	limestone	limestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 accumulating	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 comprises	nsubj
4	comprises	comprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 limestone	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Banks	det
6	Banks	Bank	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 comprises	obj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 accumulating	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 accumulating	aux
9	accumulating	accumulate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	since	since	SCONJ	_	15 period	mark
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 least	case
12	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 period	nmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 period	det
14	Cretaceous	Cretaceous	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 period	compound
15	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 accumulating	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 early	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 early	cc
18	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	20 early	advmod
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 early	advmod
20	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 accumulating	advmod
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 Jurassic	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Jurassic	det
23	Jurassic	Jurassic	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 early	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 kilometres	punct
25	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 kilometres	obl:unmarked
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 thickness	det
27	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 thickness	amod
28	thickness	thickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 kilometres	nsubj
29	under	under	ADP	_	33 Bank	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Bank	det
31	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Bank	amod
32	Bahama	Bahama	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Bank	compound
33	Bank	Bank	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 thickness	nmod
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 kilometres	cop
35	over	over	ADV	_	36 4.5	advmod
36	4.5	4.5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	37 kilometres	nummod
37	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 accumulating	obl
38	(	(	PUNCT	_	40 miles	punct
39	2.8	2.8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	40 miles	nummod
40	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 kilometres	appos
41	)	)	PUNCT	_	40 miles	punct
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 accumulating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	comprise	present	the limestone	the Banks			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bank=Pivot
2	accumulate	present · perfect · progressive	the limestone			early property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	the total thickness under the Great Bahama Bank	4.5 kilometres	today		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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