The Bahamas, sentence 210

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.

In 1996, the Bahamian Parliament passed the "Local Government Act" to facilitate the establishment of family island administrators, local government districts, local district councillors and local town committees for the various island communities.

Who acts: Bahamian Parliament · What happens: pass, facilitate, establish · To what, where: Local Government Act, 1996, establishment, family island administrators

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 (Bahamian Parliament), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1996	case
2	1996	1996	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 passed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 1996	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Parliament	det
5	Bahamian	bahamian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Parliament	amod
6	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 passed	nsubj
7	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Act	det
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Act	punct
10	Local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Act	amod
11	Government	Government	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Act	compound
12	Act	Act	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 passed	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Act	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 facilitate	mark
15	facilitate	facilitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 passed	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 establishment	det
17	establishment	establishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 facilitate	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 administrators	case
19	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 administrators	compound
20	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 administrators	compound
21	administrators	administrator	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 establishment	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 districts	punct
23	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 districts	amod
24	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 districts	compound
25	districts	district	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 administrators	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 councillors	punct
27	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 councillors	amod
28	district	district	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 councillors	amod
29	councillors	councillor	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 administrators	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 committees	cc
31	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 committees	amod
32	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 committees	compound
33	committees	committee	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 administrators	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	38 communities	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 communities	det
36	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 communities	amod
37	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 communities	compound
38	communities	community	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 committees	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pass	past	the Bahamian Parliament	the Local Government Act	1996	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent act=Theme in 1996=Destination
2	facilitate	to-infinitive	the Bahamian Parliament not said here	the establishment of family island administrators and local government districts and local district councillors and local town committees for the various island communities		tree rules
3	establish			family island administrators and local government districts and local district councillors and local town committees for the various island communities		nom establishment «act transitive»: of=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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