The Bahamas, sentence 273
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 first Africans to arrive in the Bahamas were freed slaves from Bermuda; they arrived with the Eleutheran Adventurers looking for new lives.
Who acts: first Africans, Bahamas · What happens: arrive, free, look · To what, where: freed slaves
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 (first Africans, Bahamas), 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 | 3 Africans | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 Africans | amod |
| 3 | Africans | African | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 arrive | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 arrive | mark |
| 5 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 slaves | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Bahamas | det |
| 8 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 slaves | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 freed | aux:pass |
| 10 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 slaves | amod |
| 11 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arrive | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Bermuda | case |
| 13 | Bermuda | Bermuda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 slaves | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 arrived | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 arrived | nsubj |
| 16 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrive | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 Adventurers | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Adventurers | det |
| 19 | Eleutheran | Eleutheran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Adventurers | compound |
| 20 | Adventurers | Adventurer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 arrived | obl |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 arrived | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 lives | case |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lives | amod |
| 24 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 looking | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | to-infinitive | the first Africans | freed slaves from Bermuda | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | free | past · passive | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING» | ||||||
| 3 | arrive | past | Bahamas | with the Eleutheran Adventurers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | Bahamas not said here | for new lives | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for life=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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