The Bahamas, sentence 214
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.
Each councillor or town committee member is responsible for the proper use of public funds for the maintenance and development of their constituency.
Who acts: councillor committee member · What happens: be, use, develop · To what, where: public funds, constituency
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 (councillor committee member), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 member | det |
| 2 | councillor | councillor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 member | compound |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 town | cc |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 councillor | conj |
| 5 | committee | committee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 member | compound |
| 6 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 responsible | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 responsible | cop |
| 8 | responsible | responsible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 use | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 use | det |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 use | amod |
| 12 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 responsible | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 funds | case |
| 14 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 funds | amod |
| 15 | funds | fund | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 use | nmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 maintenance | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 maintenance | det |
| 18 | maintenance | maintenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 funds | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 development | cc |
| 20 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 maintenance | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 constituency | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 constituency | nmod:poss |
| 23 | constituency | constituency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 development | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 responsible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | each councillor committee member | for the proper use of public funds for the maintenance and development of member's constituency; responsible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | public funds for the maintenance and development of member's constituency | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | develop | member's constituency | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient |
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