The Bahamas, sentence 168
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.
These limestones would have been deposited in shallow seas, assumed to be a stretched and thinned portion of the North American continental crust.
What happens: deposit, assume, stretch, thin, be · To what, where: limestones, shallow seas, stretched portion
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: 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 limestones | det |
| 2 | limestones | limestone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 deposited | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 deposited | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 deposited | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 deposited | aux:pass |
| 6 | deposited | deposit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 seas | case |
| 8 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seas | amod |
| 9 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 deposited | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 assumed | punct |
| 11 | assumed | assume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 seas | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 portion | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 portion | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 portion | det |
| 15 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 portion | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thinned | cc |
| 17 | thinned | thin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 stretched | conj |
| 18 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 assumed | advcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 crust | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 crust | det |
| 21 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 crust | compound |
| 22 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 crust | amod |
| 23 | continental | continental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 crust | amod |
| 24 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 portion | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 deposited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deposit | would · perfect · passive | this limestones | shallow seas | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in sea=Destination | ||||
| 2 | assume | participle | shallow seas not said here | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stretch | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | thin | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | a stretched portion | of the North American continental crust | 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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