The Bahamas, sentence 193

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.

Since gaining independence, the Bahamas has faced political challenges similar to those of other postcolonial island nations.

What happens: gain, face · To what, where: independence, Bahamas

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: 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	Since	since	SCONJ	_	2 gaining	mark
2	gaining	gain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 faced	advcl
3	independence	independence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gaining	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gaining	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bahamas	det
6	Bahamas	Bahamas	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 faced	nsubj:pass
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 faced	aux
8	faced	face	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	political	political	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 challenges	amod
10	challenges	challenge	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 faced	obj
11	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 challenges	amod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 those	case
13	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 similar	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 nations	case
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nations	amod
16	postcolonial	postcolonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nations	amod
17	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nations	compound
18	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 those	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 faced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gain	gerund		independence					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Theme
2	face	present · perfect · passive		the Bahamas					tree rules

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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