The Bahamas, sentence 169
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.
Sediments were forming at about the same rate as the crust below was sinking due to the added weight.
Who acts: Sediments, crust · What happens: form, sink, add · To what, where: same rate
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 (Sediments, crust), 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 | Sediments | sediment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forming | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forming | aux |
| 3 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 rate | case |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 rate | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rate | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rate | amod |
| 8 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forming | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 sinking | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crust | det |
| 11 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sinking | nsubj |
| 12 | below | below | ADV | _ | 11 crust | advmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sinking | aux |
| 14 | sinking | sink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 forming | advcl |
| 15 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 weight | case |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 due | fixed |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 weight | det |
| 18 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 weight | amod |
| 19 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sinking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past · progressive | Sediments | the same rate | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at rate=Location | ||||
| 2 | sink | past · progressive | the crust | due the added weight | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | participle | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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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