The Bahamas, sentence 280
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.
Generally, however, Bahamians self-identify as white or black along the lines similar to the distinction made in the US.
Who acts: Bahamians · What happens: identify, make · To what, where: distinction
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 | Generally | generally | ADV | _ | 8 identify | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Generally | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 identify | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | Bahamians | Bahamian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 identify | nsubj |
| 6 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 identify | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 self | punct |
| 8 | identify | identify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 white | case |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 identify | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 black | cc |
| 12 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 white | conj |
| 13 | along | along | ADP | _ | 15 lines | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lines | det |
| 15 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 identify | obl |
| 16 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lines | amod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 distinction | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 distinction | det |
| 19 | distinction | distinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 similar | obl |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 distinction | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 US | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 US | det |
| 23 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 identify | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | infinitive | Bahamians | as white; along the lines; generally, however property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as white=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | the distinction not said here | in the US | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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