The Bahamas, sentence 2
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 country comprises 700 islands, and more than 2,500 cays in the Atlantic Ocean, located north of Cuba and north-west of the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the US state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys.
Who acts: country, 2,500 cays · What happens: comprise, locate, split · To what, where: 700 islands, Hispaniola
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 (country, 2,500 cays), 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 | 2 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comprises | nsubj |
| 3 | comprises | comprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 700 | 700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 islands | nummod |
| 5 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 comprises | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 located | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 located | cc |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 10 2,500 | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 more | fixed |
| 10 | 2,500 | 2500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 cays | nummod |
| 11 | cays | cay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 located | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Ocean | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Ocean | det |
| 14 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ocean | compound |
| 15 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cays | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cays | punct |
| 17 | located | locate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 comprises | parataxis |
| 18 | north | north | ADV | _ | 17 located | advmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Cuba | case |
| 20 | Cuba | Cuba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 north | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 west | cc |
| 22 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 west | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 north | punct |
| 24 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 located | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 island | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 island | det |
| 27 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 west | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Hispaniola | case |
| 29 | Hispaniola | Hispaniola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 island | nmod |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 split | punct |
| 31 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 Hispaniola | acl |
| 32 | between | between | ADP | _ | 35 Republic | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Republic | det |
| 34 | Dominican | Dominican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Republic | compound |
| 35 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 split | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Haiti | cc |
| 37 | Haiti | Haiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Republic | conj |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 split | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 Turks | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Turks | det |
| 41 | Turks | Turk | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 Hispaniola | nmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 Islands | cc |
| 43 | Caicos | Caicos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Islands | compound |
| 44 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 41 Turks | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 southeast | punct |
| 46 | southeast | southeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Turks | appos |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 state | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 state | det |
| 49 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 state | compound |
| 50 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 southeast | nmod |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 Florida | case |
| 52 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 state | nmod |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 east | cc |
| 54 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 state | conj |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 Keys | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 Keys | det |
| 57 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 Keys | compound |
| 58 | Keys | Key | PROPN | Number=Plur | 54 east | nmod |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comprises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comprise | present | the country | 700 islands | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme island=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | locate | past | 2,500 cays in the Atlantic Ocean | north property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | split | participle | Hispaniola the Turks and Caicos Islands not said here | between the Dominican Republic and Haiti | vn break-45.1 «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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