The Bahamas, sentence 181
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.
Most islands have ridges ranging from 30 to 45 m, though Cat Island has a ridge 60 m in height.
Who acts: Most islands, ridges, Cat Island · What happens: have, range · To what, where: ridges, 30 m, ridge, height
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 (Most islands, ridges, Cat Island), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 islands | amod |
| 2 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ridges | ridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | ranging | range | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 ridges | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 m | case |
| 7 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 m | nummod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 45 | case |
| 9 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 30 | nmod |
| 10 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ranging | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 has | mark |
| 13 | Cat | Cat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Island | compound |
| 14 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 has | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ridge | det |
| 17 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | obj |
| 18 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 m | nummod |
| 19 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ridge | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 height | case |
| 21 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ridge | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Most islands | ridges | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ridge=Patient | ||||
| 2 | range | gerund | ridges not said here | 30 m | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from m=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | present | Cat Island | a ridge 60 m | height | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ridge=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.
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