The Bahamas, sentence 279
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.
Sometimes Bahamians use the term Conchy Joe to describe people of Anglo descent.
Who acts: Bahamians · What happens: use, describe · To what, where: term, people
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 (Bahamians), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 use | advmod |
| 2 | Bahamians | Bahamian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 term | det |
| 5 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | obj |
| 6 | Conchy | Conchy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 term | appos |
| 7 | Joe | Joe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Conchy | flat |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 describe | mark |
| 9 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 use | advcl |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 describe | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 descent | case |
| 12 | Anglo | anglo | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 descent | det |
| 13 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 people | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Bahamians | the term | sometimes property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Patient | |||
| 2 | describe | to-infinitive | Bahamians not said here | people of anglo descent | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent people=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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