The Bahamas, sentence 26
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.
Tourist guides often state that the name comes from the Spanish baja mar ('shallow sea').
Who acts: Tourist guides, name · What happens: state, come · To what, where: Spanish baja mar
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 (Tourist guides, name), 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 | Tourist | tourist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 guides | compound |
| 2 | guides | guide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 state | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 state | advmod |
| 4 | state | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 comes | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | nsubj |
| 8 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 state | advcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 mar | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mar | det |
| 11 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mar | amod |
| 12 | baja | baja | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mar | compound |
| 13 | mar | mar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | obl |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 sea | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 sea | punct |
| 16 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sea | amod |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mar | appos |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 sea | punct |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 sea | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | present | Tourist guides | often property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | present | the name | the Spanish baja mar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mar=Initial_Location |
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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