The Bahamas, sentence 186

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.

Tidal flats and tidal creeks are common, but the more impressive drainage patterns are formed by troughs and canyons such as Great Bahama Canyon with the evidence of turbidity currents and turbidite deposition.

Who acts: Tidal flats, troughs · What happens: be, form, evidence · To what, where: impressive drainage patterns, turbidity currents

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 (Tidal flats, troughs), 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	Tidal	tidal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flats	amod
2	flats	flat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 common	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 creeks	cc
4	tidal	tidal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creeks	amod
5	creeks	creek	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flats	conj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 common	cop
7	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 formed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 formed	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 patterns	det
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 impressive	advmod
12	impressive	impressive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 patterns	amod
13	drainage	drainage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 patterns	compound
14	patterns	pattern	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 formed	nsubj:pass
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 formed	aux:pass
16	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 common	advcl
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 troughs	case
18	troughs	trough	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 formed	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 canyons	cc
20	canyons	canyon	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 troughs	conj
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	25 Canyon	case
22	as	as	ADP	_	21 such	fixed
23	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Bahama	flat
24	Bahama	Bahama	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Canyon	compound
25	Canyon	Canyon	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 troughs	nmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 evidence	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 evidence	det
28	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 formed	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 currents	case
30	turbidity	turbidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 currents	compound
31	currents	current	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 evidence	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 deposition	cc
33	turbidite	turbidite	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 deposition	compound
34	deposition	deposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 currents	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 common	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tidal flats and tidal creeks		common property	tree rules
2	form	present · passive	troughs such Bahama Canyon and canyons	the impressive drainage patterns	with the evidence of turbidity currents and turbidite deposition	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
3	evidence			turbidity currents and turbidite deposition		nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=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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