The Bahamas, sentence 175

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.

Coral growth was greater through the Tertiary, until the start of the ice ages, and hence those deposits are more abundant below a depth of 36 m. In fact, an ancient extinct reef exists half a kilometre seaward of the present one, 30 m below sea level.

Who acts: Coral growth, deposits, ancient extinct reef · What happens: be, exist, start · To what, where: Tertiary, depth, kilometre seaward, ice ages

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 (Coral growth, deposits, ancient extinct reef), 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	Coral	coral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 growth	amod
2	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 greater	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 greater	cop
4	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 Tertiary	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Tertiary	det
7	Tertiary	Tertiary	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 greater	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 start	punct
9	until	until	ADP	_	11 start	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 start	det
11	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 greater	parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 ages	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ages	det
14	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ages	compound
15	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 start	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 abundant	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 abundant	cc
18	hence	hence	ADV	_	20 deposits	advmod
19	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 deposits	det
20	deposits	deposit	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 abundant	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 abundant	cop
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 abundant	advmod
23	abundant	abundant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 start	parataxis
24	below	below	ADP	_	26 depth	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 depth	det
26	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 abundant	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 m.	case
28	36	36	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 m.	nummod
29	m.	m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 depth	nmod
30	In	in	ADP	_	31 fact	case
31	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 m.	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 exists	punct
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 reef	det
34	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 reef	amod
35	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 reef	amod
36	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 exists	nsubj
37	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 abundant	parataxis
38	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	41 seaward	det:predet
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 seaward	det
40	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 seaward	compound
41	seaward	seaward	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 exists	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 one	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 one	det
44	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 one	amod
45	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 seaward	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 m	punct
47	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	48 m	nummod
48	m	m	NOUN	_	41 seaward	parataxis
49	below	below	ADP	_	51 level	case
50	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 level	compound
51	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 m	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 greater	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Coral growth		the Tertiary	great property	tree rules
2	is	present	that deposits		a depth of 36 m. in fact	abundant property	tree rules
3	exist	present	a ancient extinct reef	half kilometre seaward of the present one			tree rules
4	start			the ice ages			nom start «event transitive»: of=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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «The Bahamas», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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