The Bahamas, sentence 211

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 overall goal of this act is to allow the various elected leaders to govern and oversee the affairs of their respective districts without the interference of the central government.

Who acts: overall goal, central government · What happens: be, elect, govern, oversee, interfere · To what, where: 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 (overall goal, 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	3 goal	det
2	overall	overall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goal	amod
3	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 allow	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 act	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 act	det
6	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goal	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 allow	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 allow	mark
9	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 leaders	det
11	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 leaders	amod
12	elected	elect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 leaders	amod
13	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 allow	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 govern	mark
15	govern	govern	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 allow	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 oversee	cc
17	oversee	oversee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 govern	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 affairs	det
19	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 oversee	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 districts	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 districts	nmod:poss
22	respective	respective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 districts	amod
23	districts	district	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 affairs	nmod
24	without	without	ADP	_	26 interference	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 interference	det
26	interference	interference	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 oversee	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 government	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 government	det
29	central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 government	amod
30	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 interference	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 allow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the overall goal of this act		allow property	tree rules
2	elect	participle				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	govern not said to happen	to-infinitive	the overall goal of this act not said here			vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	oversee	infinitive	the overall goal of this act not said here	the affairs of affairs's respective districts	without the interference of the central government	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent affair=Eventuality
5	interfere		the central government			nom interference «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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