The Bahamas, sentence 277

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.

Many Southern Loyalists went to the Abaco Islands, half of whose population was of European descent as of 1985.

Who acts: Many Southern Loyalists, half · What happens: go, be · To what, where: Abaco 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 (Many Southern Loyalists, half), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Loyalists	amod
2	Southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Loyalists	amod
3	Loyalists	loyalist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 Islands	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Islands	det
7	Abaco	Abaco	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Islands	compound
8	Islands	Island	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 half	punct
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 descent	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 population	case
12	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	13 population	nmod:poss
13	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 half	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 descent	cop
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 descent	case
16	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 descent	amod
17	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Islands	acl:relcl
18	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	20 1985	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 as	fixed
20	1985	1985	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 descent	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Many Southern Loyalists			the Abaco Islands			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location
2	is	past	half of half of half's population's population	the Abaco Islands not said here				of European descent; as 1985	tree rules

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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