The Bahamas, sentence 255

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.

Payroll taxes fund social insurance benefits and amount to 3.9 per cent paid by the employee and 5.9 per cent paid by the employer.

Who acts: Payroll taxes · What happens: fund, pay · To what, where: social insurance benefits, 3.9 per cent, 5.9 per cent

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 (Payroll taxes), 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	Payroll	payroll	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taxes	compound
2	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fund	nsubj
3	fund	fund	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 benefits	amod
5	insurance	insurance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 benefits	compound
6	benefits	benefit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fund	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 amount	cc
8	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 benefits	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 cent	case
10	3.9	3.9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 cent	nummod
11	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cent	compound
12	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 amount	nmod
13	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cent	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 employee	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 employee	det
16	employee	employee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 paid	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cent	cc
18	5.9	5.9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 cent	nummod
19	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cent	compound
20	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 employee	conj
21	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 cent	acl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 employer	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 employer	det
24	employer	employer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 paid	obl:agent
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fund	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fund	present	Payroll taxes	social insurance benefits and amount to 3.9 per cent		tree rules
2	pay	participle		3.9 per cent not said here	by the employee and 5.9 per cent	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	pay	participle		5.9 per cent not said here		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: 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.

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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