The Bahamas, sentence 18
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.
Its first prime minister was Lynden Pindling.
Who acts: first prime minister · What happens: be · To what, where: Lynden
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 (first prime minister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 minister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 minister | amod |
| 3 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minister | amod |
| 4 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Lynden | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Lynden | cop |
| 6 | Lynden | Lynden | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | Pindling | Pindling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Lynden | flat |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lynden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Kingdom's first prime minister | Lynden | tree rules |
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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