The Bahamas, sentence 286
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.
Laurente Gibbs, a Bahamian writer and actor, was the first to coin the latter name in a poem and has since promoted its usage.
Who acts: Laurente, poem · What happens: be, promote, use · To what, where: first coin, usage
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 (Laurente, poem), 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 | Laurente | Laurente | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 coin | nsubj |
| 2 | Gibbs | Gibbs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Laurente | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 writer | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 writer | det |
| 5 | Bahamian | bahamian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 writer | amod |
| 6 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Laurente | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 actor | cc |
| 8 | actor | actor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 writer | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Laurente | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 coin | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 coin | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 coin | amod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 coin | mark |
| 14 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 name | det |
| 16 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 name | amod |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coin | appos |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 poem | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 poem | det |
| 20 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 name | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 promoted | cc |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 promoted | aux |
| 23 | since | since | ADV | _ | 24 promoted | advmod |
| 24 | promoted | promote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 poem | acl:relcl |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 usage | nmod:poss |
| 26 | usage | usage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 promoted | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 coin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Laurente | the first coin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | promote | present · perfect | a poem not said here | poem's usage | since property | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent usage=Theme | |||
| 3 | use | poem | nom usage «act transitive»: poss=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.
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