The Bahamas, sentence 288
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.
Haitian Creole, a French-based creole language, is spoken by Haitians and their descendants, who make up of about 25% of the total population.
Who acts: Haitians, descendants · What happens: base, speak, make up · To what, where: Haitian Creole · 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 (Haitians, descendants), 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 | Haitian | haitian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Creole | amod |
| 2 | Creole | Creole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 language | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 language | det |
| 5 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 based | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 French | 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 | 2 Creole | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Creole | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 spoken | aux:pass |
| 12 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Haitians | case |
| 14 | Haitians | Haitian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 spoken | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 descendants | cc |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 descendants | nmod:poss |
| 17 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spoken | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 make | nsubj |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 descendants | acl:relcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 make | compound:prt |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 % | case |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 25 | advmod |
| 24 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 % | nummod |
| 25 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 20 make | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 population | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 population | det |
| 28 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 population | amod |
| 29 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 % | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | base | participle | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present · passive | Haitians | Haitian Creole | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make up | present | Haitians's descendants | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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