The Bahamas, sentence 270

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.

According to the 99 percent response rate obtained from the race question on the 2010 Census questionnaire, 90.6 per cent of the population identified themselves as being Black, 4.7 per cent White and 2.1 per cent of a Mixed (African and European).

Who acts: response rate · What happens: accord, obtain, identify, be, mix · To what, where: response rate, race question, islands

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 (response rate), 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 rate	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rate	det
4	99	99	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 percent	nummod
5	percent	percent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 response	compound
6	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rate	compound
7	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 identified	nsubj
8	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 rate	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 question	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 question	det
11	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 question	compound
12	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 obtained	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	17 questionnaire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 questionnaire	det
15	2010	2010	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 questionnaire	nummod
16	Census	Census	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 questionnaire	compound
17	questionnaire	questionnaire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 question	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cent	punct
19	90.6	90.6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 cent	nummod
20	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cent	compound
21	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 questionnaire	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 population	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 population	det
24	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cent	nmod
25	identified	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 identified	obj
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 Black	case
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 Black	cop
29	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 identified	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 White	punct
31	4.7	4.7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	33 cent	nummod
32	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cent	compound
33	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 White	obl:unmarked
34	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 identified	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 cent	cc
36	2.1	2.1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	38 cent	nummod
37	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cent	compound
38	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 White	conj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 a	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 cent	appos
41	Mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 a	acl
42	(	(	PUNCT	_	43 African	punct
43	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Mixed	parataxis
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 European	cc
45	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 African	conj
46	)	)	PUNCT	_	43 African	punct
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 identified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	obtain	participle		the response rate not said here	the race question on the 2010 Census questionnaire		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from question=Source
3	identify	past	the response rate	islands = island			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
4	is	gerund				black property	tree rules
5	mix	participle					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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