The Bahamas, sentence 272
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.
Since the colonial era of plantations, Africans or Afro-Bahamians have been the largest ethnic group in the Bahamas, whose primary ancestry was based in West Africa.
What happens: be, base · To what, where: largest ethnic group, Bahamas, primary ancestry, West Africa
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: 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 4 era | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 era | det |
| 3 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 era | amod |
| 4 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 group | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 plantations | case |
| 6 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 era | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Africans | punct |
| 8 | Africans | African | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 plantations | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 Bahamians | cc |
| 10 | Afro | Afro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bahamians | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Afro | punct |
| 12 | Bahamians | Bahamian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Africans | conj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 group | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 group | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 group | det |
| 16 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 group | amod |
| 17 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 group | amod |
| 18 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Bahamas | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Bahamas | det |
| 21 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 group | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 based | punct |
| 23 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 25 ancestry | nmod:poss |
| 24 | primary | primary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ancestry | amod |
| 25 | ancestry | ancestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 based | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 based | aux:pass |
| 27 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 group | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Africa | case |
| 29 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Africa | compound |
| 30 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 based | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 group | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present · perfect | the largest ethnic group | the Bahamas | since the colonial era of plantations and Africans or Afro Bahamians | tree rules | |||
| 2 | base | past · passive | primary ancestry | West Africa | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme |
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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