The Bahamas, sentence 29
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Isaac Taylor, a toponymist, argues that the name was derived from Bimani (Bimini), which Spaniards in Haiti identified with Palombe, a legendary place where John Mandeville's Travels said there was a fountain of youth.
Who acts: Isaac, Spaniards, Travels · What happens: argue, derive, identify, say, be · To what, where: name, Bimani, fountain · 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 (Isaac, Spaniards, Travels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Isaac | Isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 argues | nsubj |
| 2 | Taylor | Taylor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Isaac | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 toponymist | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 toponymist | det |
| 5 | toponymist | toponymist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Isaac | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Isaac | punct |
| 7 | argues | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 derived | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 name | det |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 derived | aux:pass |
| 12 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 argues | ccomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Bimani | case |
| 14 | Bimani | Bimani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 derived | obl |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 Bimini | punct |
| 16 | Bimini | Bimini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Bimani | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 Bimini | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Spaniards | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 Spaniards | nsubj |
| 20 | Spaniards | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 identified | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Haiti | case |
| 22 | Haiti | Haiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Spaniards | nmod |
| 23 | identified | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Bimani | acl:relcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Palombe | case |
| 25 | Palombe | Palombe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 identified | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 place | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 place | det |
| 28 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 place | amod |
| 29 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Palombe | appos |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 said | advmod |
| 31 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Travels | nmod:poss |
| 32 | Mandeville | Mandeville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 John | flat |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 John | case |
| 34 | Travels | Travel | PROPN | Number=Plur | 35 said | nsubj |
| 35 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 place | acl:relcl |
| 36 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 37 was | expl |
| 37 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 said | ccomp |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 fountain | det |
| 39 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 said | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 youth | case |
| 41 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fountain | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 argues | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | present | Isaac | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | derive | past · passive | the name | Bimani | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from bimani=Material | ||||
| 3 | identify | past | Spaniards in Haiti | with Palombe | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer with palombe=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | John's Travels | a fountain of youth | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | past | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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