The Bahamas, sentence 27
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.
Wolfgang Ahrens of York University argues that this is a folk etymology.
Who acts: Wolfgang Ahrens, this · What happens: argue, be · To what, where: folk etymology · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Wolfgang Ahrens, this), 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 | Wolfgang | Wolfgang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ahrens | compound |
| 2 | Ahrens | Ahrens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 argues | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 University | case |
| 4 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 University | compound |
| 5 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ahrens | nmod |
| 6 | argues | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 etymology | mark |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 etymology | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 etymology | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 etymology | det |
| 11 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 etymology | compound |
| 12 | etymology | etymology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 argues | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 argues | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | present | Wolfgang Ahrens of York University | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | this | a folk etymology | 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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