The Bahamas, sentence 164
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.
As the limestone was deposited in shallow water, the only way to explain this massive column is to estimate that the entire platform has subsided under its own weight at a rate of roughly 3.6 centimetres (2 inches) per 1,000 years.
Who acts: only way · What happens: deposit, explain, be, subside · To what, where: limestone, shallow water, massive column, entire platform, own weight
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 (only way), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 deposited | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 limestone | det |
| 3 | limestone | limestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deposited | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 deposited | aux:pass |
| 5 | deposited | deposit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 estimate | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 water | amod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deposited | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 deposited | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 11 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 estimate | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 explain | mark |
| 14 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 way | acl |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 column | det |
| 16 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 column | amod |
| 17 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 explain | obj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 estimate | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 estimate | mark |
| 20 | estimate | estimate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 subsided | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 platform | det |
| 23 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 platform | amod |
| 24 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 subsided | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 subsided | aux |
| 26 | subsided | subside | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 estimate | ccomp |
| 27 | under | under | ADP | _ | 30 weight | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 weight | nmod:poss |
| 29 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 weight | amod |
| 30 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 subsided | obl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 rate | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 rate | det |
| 33 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 weight | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 centimetres | case |
| 35 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 36 3.6 | advmod |
| 36 | 3.6 | 3.6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 centimetres | nummod |
| 37 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 rate | nmod |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 inches | punct |
| 39 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 inches | nummod |
| 40 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 centimetres | conj |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 40 inches | punct |
| 42 | per | per | ADV | _ | 43 1,000 | advmod |
| 43 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 44 years | nummod |
| 44 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 centimetres | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 estimate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deposit | past · passive | the limestone | shallow water | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in water=Destination | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | the only way not said here | this massive column | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent column=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the only way | estimate property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | subside | present · perfect · passive | the entire platform | limestone's own weight at a rate of 3.6 centimetres and 2 inches and 1,000 years | 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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