The Bahamas, sentence 25

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.

Bahama referred to Grand Bahama alone when first attested on the c. 1523 Turin Map, but was used in English for the archipelago as a whole by 1670.

Who acts: Bahama · What happens: refer, attest, use · To what, where: Grand Bahama, c., English

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 (Bahama), 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	Bahama	Bahama	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 referred	nsubj
2	referred	refer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 Bahama	case
4	Grand	Grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Bahama	amod
5	Bahama	Bahama	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 referred	obl
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 referred	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 attested	advmod
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 attested	advmod
9	attested	attest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 referred	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 c.	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 c.	det
12	c.	c.	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attested	obl
13	1523	1523	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 c.	flat
14	Turin	Turin	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Map	compound
15	Map	Map	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 c.	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 used	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 used	cc
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 used	aux:pass
19	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 referred	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 English	case
21	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 used	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 archipelago	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 archipelago	det
24	archipelago	archipelago	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 used	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 whole	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 whole	det
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 used	obl
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 1670	case
29	1670	1670	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 used	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 referred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	refer	past	Bahama	Grand Bahama		alone property	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to bahama=Co-Theme
2	attest	participle	Bahama not said here		the c.	first property	tree rules
3	use	past · passive	Bahama not said here		English	for the archipelago; as a whole; by 1670	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»

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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