The Bahamas, sentence 180
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.
Overlapping dunes form oolitic ridges, which become rapidly lithified through the action of rainwater, called eolianite.
Who acts: Overlapping dunes, oolitic ridges, rainwater · What happens: form, lithify, call, act · To what, where: oolitic ridges, action, eolianite · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Overlapping dunes, oolitic ridges, rainwater), 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 | Overlapping | overlapping | ADJ | _ | 2 dunes | amod |
| 2 | dunes | dune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 form | nsubj |
| 3 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | oolitic | oolitic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ridges | amod |
| 5 | ridges | ridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 form | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lithified | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lithified | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lithified | aux |
| 9 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 10 lithified | advmod |
| 10 | lithified | lithify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ridges | acl:relcl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 action | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 action | det |
| 13 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lithified | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 rainwater | case |
| 15 | rainwater | rainwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 action | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ridges | acl |
| 18 | eolianite | eolianite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | Overlapping dunes | oolitic ridges | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ridge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lithify | present · passive | oolitic ridges | the action of rainwater | rapidly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | call | participle | oolitic ridges not said here | eolianite | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | act | rainwater | nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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