The Bahamas, sentence 271

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.

Three centuries prior, in 1722 when the first official census of the Bahamas was taken, 74 per cent of the population was native European and 26 per cent native African.

Who acts: 26 per cent · What happens: take, be, census · To what, where: first official census, Bahamas

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 (26 per cent), 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	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 centuries	nummod
2	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prior	obl:unmarked
3	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	26 European	csubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 1722	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1722	case
6	1722	1722	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 prior	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 taken	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 census	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 census	amod
10	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 census	amod
11	census	census	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taken	nsubj:pass
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Bahamas	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Bahamas	det
14	Bahamas	Bahamas	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 census	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	aux:pass
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 1722	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cent	punct
18	74	74	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 cent	nummod
19	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cent	compound
20	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taken	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 population	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 population	det
23	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cent	nmod
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 European	cop
25	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 European	amod
26	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 African	cc
28	26	26	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 cent	nummod
29	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cent	compound
30	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 African	nsubj
31	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 African	amod
32	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 European	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 European	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive		the first official census of the Bahamas		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme cent=Destination
2	is	past			european property	tree rules
3	be		26 per cent			tree rules
4	census			the Bahamas		nom census «act transitive»: of=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.

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