The Bahamas, sentence 173

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.

Sedimentation from the "carbonate factory" of each bank, or atoll, continues today at the rate of about 20 mm per kyr.

Who acts: Sedimentation · What happens: continue · To what, where: 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 (Sedimentation), 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	Sedimentation	sedimentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 continues	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	6 factory	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 factory	det
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 factory	punct
5	carbonate	carbonate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 factory	compound
6	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sedimentation	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 factory	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 bank	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 bank	det
10	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 factory	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 atoll	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 atoll	cc
13	atoll	atoll	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sedimentation	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sedimentation	punct
15	continues	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 continues	obl:unmarked
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 rate	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rate	det
19	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 continues	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 mm	case
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 20	advmod
22	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 mm	nummod
23	mm	mm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rate	nmod
24	per	per	ADP	_	25 kyr	case
25	kyr	kyr	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mm	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 continues	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	present	Sedimentation from the carbonate factory of each bank or atoll			the rate of 20 mm per kyr	today		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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