The Bahamas, sentence 187
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The stratigraphy of the islands consists of the Middle Pleistocene Owl's Hole Formation, overlain by the Late Pleistocene Grotto Beach Formation, and then the Holocene Rice Bay Formation.
Who acts: stratigraphy · What happens: consist, overlie · To what, where: Hole Formation
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 (stratigraphy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stratigraphy | det |
| 2 | stratigraphy | stratigraphy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consists | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 islands | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 islands | det |
| 5 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stratigraphy | nmod |
| 6 | consists | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Formation | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Owl | det |
| 9 | Middle | Middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Owl | amod |
| 10 | Pleistocene | Pleistocene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Owl | compound |
| 11 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Formation | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Owl | case |
| 13 | Hole | Hole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Formation | compound |
| 14 | Formation | formation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consists | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 overlain | punct |
| 16 | overlain | overlie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Formation | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 Formation | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Formation | det |
| 19 | Late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Pleistocene | amod |
| 20 | Pleistocene | Pleistocene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Beach | compound |
| 21 | Grotto | Grotto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Beach | compound |
| 22 | Beach | Beach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Formation | compound |
| 23 | Formation | formation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 overlain | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Formation | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Formation | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 Formation | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Formation | det |
| 28 | Holocene | Holocene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Bay | compound |
| 29 | Rice | Rice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Bay | compound |
| 30 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Formation | compound |
| 31 | Formation | formation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consists | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 consists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | present | the stratigraphy of the islands | of the Middle Pleistocene Owl's Hole Formation | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overlie | participle | the Middle Pleistocene Owl's Hole Formation not said here | by the Beach Formation | tree rules |
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