The Bahamas, sentence 285
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.
Many people speak an English-based creole language called Bahamian dialect (known simply as "dialect") or "Bahamianese".
Who acts: Many people, based creole language · What happens: speak, base, call, know · To what, where: based creole language, Bahamian dialect · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Many people, based creole language), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 speak | nsubj |
| 3 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 language | det |
| 5 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 based | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 English | punct |
| 7 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 language | amod |
| 8 | creole | creole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 language | amod |
| 9 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 speak | obj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 language | acl |
| 11 | Bahamian | Bahamian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 dialect | compound |
| 12 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 known | punct |
| 14 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 language | parataxis |
| 15 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 18 dialect | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 dialect | case |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dialect | punct |
| 18 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 known | obl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dialect | punct |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 known | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 Bahamianese | cc |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Bahamianese | punct |
| 23 | Bahamianese | bahamianese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 language | conj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Bahamianese | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | Many people | a based creole language | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | base | participle | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | call | participle | a based creole language not said here | Bahamian dialect | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | know | participle | as dialect | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as dialect=Attribute |
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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