The Bahamas, sentence 24
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 name Bahamas is derived from the Lucayan name Bahama ('large upper middle island'), used by the Indigenous Lucayan people for the island of Grand Bahama.
What happens: derive, use · To what, where: name, Lucayan name
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.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 name | appos |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 derived | aux:pass |
| 5 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 name | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 name | det |
| 8 | Lucayan | Lucayan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 name | compound |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 derived | obl |
| 10 | Bahama | Bahama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 name | appos |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 island | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 island | punct |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 island | amod |
| 14 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 island | amod |
| 15 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 island | amod |
| 16 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Bahama | appos |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 island | punct |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 island | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 used | punct |
| 20 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 derived | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 people | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 people | det |
| 23 | Indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 people | amod |
| 24 | Lucayan | Lucayan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 people | compound |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 used | obl:agent |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 island | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 island | det |
| 28 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 people | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Bahama | case |
| 30 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Bahama | amod |
| 31 | Bahama | Bahama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 island | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 derived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derive | present · passive | the name | the Lucayan name | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from name=Material | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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