The Bahamas, sentence 276

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 white Bahamian population are mainly the descendants of the English Puritans and American Loyalists escaping the American Revolution who arrived in 1649 and 1783, respectively.

Who acts: white Bahamian population, English Puritans, American Revolution · What happens: be, escape, arrive · To what, where: descendants, 1649

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 (white Bahamian population, English Puritans, American Revolution), 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	4 population	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 population	amod
3	Bahamian	bahamian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 population	amod
4	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 descendants	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 descendants	cop
6	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	8 descendants	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 descendants	det
8	descendants	descendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 Puritans	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Puritans	det
11	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Puritans	amod
12	Puritans	Puritan	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 descendants	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Loyalists	cc
14	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Loyalists	amod
15	Loyalists	Loyalist	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 Puritans	conj
16	escaping	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 Puritans	acl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Revolution	det
18	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Revolution	amod
19	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 arrived	nsubj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 arrived	nsubj
21	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 escaping	ccomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 1649	case
23	1649	1649	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 arrived	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 1783	cc
25	1783	1783	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 1649	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 respectively	punct
27	respectively	respectively	ADV	_	21 arrived	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 descendants	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the white Bahamian population	the descendants		of the English Puritans and American Loyalists; mainly property	tree rules
2	escape	gerund	the English Puritans and American Loyalists not said here				tree rules
3	arrive	past	the American Revolution		1649	respectively property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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