The Bahamas, sentence 17
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 Bahamas became an independent Commonwealth realm separate from the United Kingdom in 1973.
Who acts: Bahamas, independent Commonwealth realm · What happens: become, separate
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 (Bahamas, independent Commonwealth realm), 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 Bahamas | det |
| 2 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 realm | det |
| 5 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 realm | amod |
| 6 | Commonwealth | commonwealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 realm | compound |
| 7 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 separate | nsubj |
| 8 | separate | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | xcomp |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Kingdom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Kingdom | det |
| 11 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 12 Kingdom | flat |
| 12 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 separate | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1973 | case |
| 14 | 1973 | 1973 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 separate | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the Bahamas | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | separate | present | a independent Commonwealth realm | in 1973; from the United Kingdom | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from kingdom=Co-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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