The Bahamas, sentence 171
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.
Then, at about 80 Ma, the area became flooded by the Gulf Stream.
Who acts: 80 Ma · What happens: become, flood
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 (80 Ma), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 became | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ma | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Ma | case |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 80 | advmod |
| 5 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 Ma | nummod |
| 6 | Ma | Ma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 became | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 area | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 area | det |
| 9 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Ma | appos |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | flooded | flood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 became | xcomp |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Stream | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Stream | det |
| 14 | Gulf | Gulf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Stream | compound |
| 15 | Stream | Stream | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 flooded | obl:agent |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | 80 Ma | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flood | participle | 80 Ma not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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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