The Bahamas, sentence 209

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 districts of the Bahamas provide a system of local government everywhere except New Providence (which holds 70 per cent of the national population), whose affairs are handled directly by the central government.

Who acts: districts, New Providence, central government · What happens: provide, hold, handle · To what, where: system, 70 per cent, affairs

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 (districts, New Providence, central government), 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 districts	det
2	districts	district	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 provide	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Bahamas	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bahamas	det
5	Bahamas	Bahamas	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 districts	nmod
6	provide	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 system	det
8	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 provide	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 government	case
10	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 government	amod
11	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 system	nmod
12	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 provide	advmod
13	except	except	ADP	_	15 Providence	case
14	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Providence	amod
15	Providence	Providence	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 everywhere	obl
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 holds	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 holds	nsubj
18	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 Providence	acl:relcl
19	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 cent	nummod
20	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cent	compound
21	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 holds	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 population	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 population	det
24	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 population	amod
25	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cent	nmod
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 holds	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 handled	punct
28	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	29 affairs	nmod:poss
29	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 handled	nsubj:pass
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 handled	aux:pass
31	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 holds	conj
32	directly	directly	ADV	_	31 handled	advmod
33	by	by	ADP	_	36 government	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 government	det
35	central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 government	amod
36	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 handled	obl:agent
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 provide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	provide	present	the districts of the Bahamas	a system of local government	everywhere property	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition system=Theme
2	hold	present	New Providence	70 per cent of the national population		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cent=Theme
3	handle	present · passive	the central government	affairs	directly property	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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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