The Bahamas, sentence 282

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.

They make up less than 2 per cent of the nation's population, but have still preserved their distinct Greek Bahamian culture.

Who acts: Bahamians · What happens: make up, preserve · To what, where: 2 per cent, distinct Greek Bahamian culture

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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 make	compound:prt
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	6 2	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 less	fixed
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 cent	nummod
7	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cent	compound
8	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 population	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nation	det
11	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 population	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 nation	case
13	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cent	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 preserved	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 preserved	cc
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 preserved	aux
17	still	still	ADV	_	18 preserved	advmod
18	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 make	conj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 culture	nmod:poss
20	distinct	distinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 culture	amod
21	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 culture	amod
22	Bahamian	bahamian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 culture	amod
23	culture	culture	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 preserved	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	present	Bahamians = bahamian	2 per cent of the nation's population					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cent=Pivot
2	preserve	present · perfect	Bahamians = bahamian not said here	Bahamians's distinct Greek Bahamian culture			still		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent culture=Beneficiary

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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