The Bahamas, sentence 269
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 most populous islands are New Providence, where Nassau, the capital and largest city, is located; and Grand Bahama, home to the second-largest city of Freeport.
Who acts: populous islands · What happens: be, locate · To what, where: New Providence
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 (populous islands), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 islands | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 populous | advmod |
| 3 | populous | populous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 islands | amod |
| 4 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Providence | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Providence | cop |
| 6 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Providence | amod |
| 7 | Providence | Providence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 located | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Nassau | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 Nassau | advmod |
| 10 | Nassau | Nassau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Providence | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 capital | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 capital | det |
| 13 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Nassau | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 city | cc |
| 15 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 city | amod |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 capital | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Providence | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 located | aux:pass |
| 19 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 Grand | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Grand | cc |
| 22 | Grand | Grand | PROPN | _ | 19 located | obl |
| 23 | Bahama | Bahama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Grand | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 home | punct |
| 25 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Grand | appos |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 city | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 city | det |
| 28 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 city | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 second | punct |
| 30 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 city | amod |
| 31 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 home | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Freeport | case |
| 33 | Freeport | Freeport | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 city | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 located | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the populous islands | New Providence and Nassau | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | locate | present · passive | New Providence and Nassau | Grand obl | tree rules |
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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