The Bahamas, sentence 179
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.
Sea level changes resulted in a drop in sea level, causing wind blown oolite to form sand dunes with distinct cross-bedding.
What happens: result, cause, blow, form · To what, where: Sea level, drop, wind blown oolite, sand dunes
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: 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 | Sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 level | compound |
| 2 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 resulted | nsubj |
| 3 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 resulted | aux:pass |
| 4 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 drop | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 drop | det |
| 7 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 resulted | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 level | case |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 level | compound |
| 10 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drop | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 causing | punct |
| 12 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 resulted | advcl |
| 13 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 oolite | compound |
| 14 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 oolite | amod |
| 15 | oolite | oolite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 causing | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 form | mark |
| 17 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 causing | advcl |
| 18 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dunes | compound |
| 19 | dunes | dune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 form | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 cross-bedding | case |
| 21 | distinct | distinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cross-bedding | amod |
| 22 | cross-bedding | cross-bedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 form | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 resulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | result | present · passive | Sea level | a drop in sea level | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cause | gerund | wind blown oolite | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition oolite=Patient | |||||
| 3 | blow | participle | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | form | to-infinitive | sand dunes | with distinct cross-bedding | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dune=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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