The Bahamas, sentence 224
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.
Its duties include defending the Bahamas, stopping drug smuggling, illegal immigration and poaching, and providing assistance to mariners.
Who acts: duties · What happens: include, defend, stop, provide · To what, where: Bahamas, drug smuggling, assistance, mariners
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 (duties), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 duties | nmod:poss |
| 2 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 include | nsubj |
| 3 | include | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | defending | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 include | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bahamas | det |
| 6 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 defending | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stopping | punct |
| 8 | stopping | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 defending | conj |
| 9 | drug | drug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smuggling | compound |
| 10 | smuggling | smuggling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stopping | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 immigration | punct |
| 12 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 immigration | amod |
| 13 | immigration | immigration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smuggling | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 poaching | cc |
| 15 | poaching | poaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 immigration | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 providing | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 providing | cc |
| 18 | providing | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 defending | conj |
| 19 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 providing | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 mariners | case |
| 21 | mariners | mariner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 providing | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 include | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | existence's duties | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | defend | gerund | the Bahamas | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bahamas=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | stop | gerund | drug smuggling | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality smuggling=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | provide | gerund | assistance | mariners | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme to mariner=Recipient |
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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