The Bahamas, sentence 189
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.
The oldest formation, Owl's Hole, is capped by a terra rosa paleosol, as is the Grotto Beach, unless eroded.
Who acts: rosa paleosol · What happens: cap, be, erode · To what, where: oldest 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 (rosa paleosol), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 formation | det |
| 2 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 formation | amod |
| 3 | formation | formation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 capped | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Hole | punct |
| 5 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Hole | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Owl | case |
| 7 | Hole | Hole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 formation | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 formation | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 capped | aux:pass |
| 10 | capped | cap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 paleosol | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 paleosol | det |
| 13 | terra | terra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rosa | compound |
| 14 | rosa | rosa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 paleosol | compound |
| 15 | paleosol | paleosol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 capped | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Beach | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 Beach | case |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Beach | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Beach | det |
| 20 | Grotto | Grotto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Beach | compound |
| 21 | Beach | Beach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 capped | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 eroded | punct |
| 23 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 24 eroded | mark |
| 24 | eroded | erode | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 capped | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 capped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cap | present · passive | a rosa paleosol | the oldest formation | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | present | as the Grotto Beach | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | erode a condition, not said to happen | participle | a rosa paleosol not said here | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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