The Bahamas, sentence 278

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 term white is usually used to identify Bahamians with Anglo ancestry, as well as some light-skinned Afro-Bahamians.

What happens: use, identify · To what, where: term white, Bahamians

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 white	det
2	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 white	compound
3	white	white	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 used	aux:pass
5	usually	usually	ADV	_	6 used	advmod
6	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 identify	mark
8	identify	identify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	advcl
9	Bahamians	Bahamian	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 identify	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 ancestry	case
11	Anglo	anglo	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ancestry	det
12	ancestry	ancestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 identify	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 as	punct
14	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	6 used	advmod
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 as	fixed
16	as	as	ADP	_	14 as	fixed
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 Bahamians	det
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 skinned	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 light	punct
20	skinned	skinned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Bahamians	amod
21	Afro	afro	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Bahamians	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Afro	punct
23	Bahamians	Bahamian	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 as	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive		the term white				usually property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	identify	to-infinitive		Bahamians				with anglo ancestry	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bahamian=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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