The Bahamas, sentence 281

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.

A small portion of the Euro-Bahamian population are Greek Bahamians, descended from Greek labourers who came to help develop the sponging industry in the 1900s.

Who acts: small portion, Greek labourers · What happens: be, descend, come, help, develop, sponge · To what, where: Greek Bahamians, Greek labourers, sponging industry, 1900s

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 (small portion, Greek labourers), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 portion	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 portion	amod
3	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Bahamians	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 population	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 population	det
6	Euro	Euro	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 population	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Euro	punct
8	Bahamian	bahamian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 population	amod
9	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 portion	nmod
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Bahamians	cop
11	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Bahamians	amod
12	Bahamians	Bahamian	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 descended	punct
14	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 Bahamians	acl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 labourers	case
16	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 labourers	amod
17	labourers	labourer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 descended	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 labourers	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 help	mark
21	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 came	xcomp
22	develop	develop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 help	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 industry	det
24	sponging	sponge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 industry	amod
25	industry	industry	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 develop	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 1900s	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 1900s	det
28	1900s	1900	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	22 develop	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Bahamians	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	a small portion of the Euro Bahamian population	Greek Bahamians		tree rules
2	descend	participle		Greek Bahamians not said here	Greek labourers	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from labourer=Location
3	come	past	Greek labourers			tree rules
4	help	to-infinitive	Greek labourers not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	develop	infinitive	Greek labourers not said here	the sponging industry	the 1900s	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent industry=Product
6	sponge	gerund				vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «The Bahamas», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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