The Bahamas, sentence 221

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.

Under the Defence Act, the RBDF has been mandated, in the name of the king, to defend the Bahamas, protect its territorial integrity, patrol its waters, provide assistance and relief in times of disaster, maintain order in conjunction with the law enforcement agencies of the Bahamas, and carry out any such duties as determined by the National Security Council.

What happens: mandate, defend, protect, patrol, provide, maintain · To what, where: RBDF, Defence Act, Bahamas, territorial integrity, waters, assistance

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: 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	Under	under	ADP	_	4 Act	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Act	det
3	Defence	Defence	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Act	compound
4	Act	Act	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mandated	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Act	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 RBDF	det
7	RBDF	RBDF	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mandated	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mandated	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 mandated	aux:pass
10	mandated	mandate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 name	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 name	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 name	det
14	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mandated	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 king	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 name	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 defend	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 defend	mark
20	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 mandated	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Bahamas	det
22	Bahamas	Bahamas	PROPN	Number=Plur	20 defend	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 protect	punct
24	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 defend	parataxis
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 integrity	nmod:poss
26	territorial	territorial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 integrity	amod
27	integrity	integrity	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 protect	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 patrol	punct
29	patrol	patrol	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 protect	conj
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 waters	nmod:poss
31	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 patrol	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 provide	punct
33	provide	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 protect	parataxis
34	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 provide	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 relief	cc
36	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 assistance	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 times	case
38	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 provide	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 disaster	case
40	disaster	disaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 times	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 maintain	punct
42	maintain	maintain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 provide	conj
43	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 maintain	obj
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 conjunction	case
45	conjunction	conjunction	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 maintain	obl
46	with	with	ADP	_	50 agencies	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 agencies	det
48	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 enforcement	compound
49	enforcement	enforcement	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 agencies	compound
50	agencies	agency	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 conjunction	nmod
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 Bahamas	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Bahamas	det
53	Bahamas	Bahamas	PROPN	Number=Plur	50 agencies	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 carry	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 carry	cc
56	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 mandated	advcl
57	out	out	ADP	_	56 carry	compound:prt
58	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	60 duties	det
59	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 duties	amod
60	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 carry	obj
61	as	as	SCONJ	_	62 determined	mark
62	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 carry	advcl
63	by	by	ADP	_	67 Council	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 Council	det
65	National	National	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 Council	amod
66	Security	Security	PROPN	Number=Sing	67 Council	compound
67	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 determined	obl:agent
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 mandated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mandate	present · perfect · passive	the RBDF		the Defence Act		in the name of the king	tree rules
2	defend	to-infinitive		the Bahamas				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bahamas=Beneficiary
3	protect	present	name's territorial integrity					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent integrity=Beneficiary
4	patrol	infinitive	integrity's waters					vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Location
5	provide	present	assistance and relief			time		vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition assistance=Theme
6	maintain	infinitive	order		conjunction with the enforcement agencies of the Bahamas			vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent order=Theme
7	carry out	infinitive	any such duties					vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality
8	determine	participle						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	name		the king					nom name «communication 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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «The Bahamas», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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