The Bahamas, sentence 176
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.
Oolites form when oceanic water penetrate the shallow banks, increasing the temperature about 3 C-change and the salinity by 0.5 per cent.
Who acts: Oolites · What happens: form, penetrate, increase · To what, where: shallow banks, temperature
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 (Oolites), 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 | Oolites | oolite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 form | nsubj |
| 2 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 penetrate | advmod |
| 4 | oceanic | oceanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 water | amod |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 penetrate | compound |
| 6 | penetrate | penetrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 form | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 banks | det |
| 8 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 banks | amod |
| 9 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 penetrate | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 increasing | punct |
| 11 | increasing | increase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 penetrate | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 temperature | det |
| 13 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 increasing | obj |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 3 | advmod |
| 15 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 change | nummod |
| 16 | C | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 change | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 change | punct |
| 18 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 increasing | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 salinity | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 salinity | det |
| 21 | salinity | salinity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 change | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 cent | case |
| 23 | 0.5 | 0.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 cent | nummod |
| 24 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cent | compound |
| 25 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 increasing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | Oolites | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | penetrate | infinitive | Oolites not said here | the shallow banks | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Patient | ||||
| 3 | increase | gerund | Oolites not said here | the temperature | by 0.5 per cent | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: agent=Causer temperature=Patient change=Extent |
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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