The Bahamas, sentence 293
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.
Jews in the Bahamas have a history dating back to the Columbus expeditions, where Luis de Torres, an interpreter and member of Columbus' party, is believed to have been secretly Jewish.
Who acts: Jews, history · What happens: have, date back, believe, be · To what, where: history, Luis
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 (Jews, history), 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 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Bahamas | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bahamas | det |
| 4 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Jews | nmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 history | det |
| 7 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | dating | date | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 history | acl |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 dating | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 expeditions | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 expeditions | det |
| 12 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 expeditions | compound |
| 13 | expeditions | expedition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dating | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 believed | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 believed | advmod |
| 16 | Luis | Luis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Luis | flat |
| 18 | Torres | Torres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Luis | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 interpreter | punct |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 interpreter | det |
| 21 | interpreter | interpreter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Luis | appos |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 member | cc |
| 23 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 interpreter | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 party | case |
| 25 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 party | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 25 Columbus | case |
| 27 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 member | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Luis | punct |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 believed | aux:pass |
| 30 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 expeditions | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 Jewish | mark |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 Jewish | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 Jewish | cop |
| 34 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 35 Jewish | advmod |
| 35 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 believed | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Jews in the Bahamas | a history | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient | ||||
| 2 | date back | gerund | a history not said here | to the Columbus expeditions | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | believe | present · passive | Luis | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive · perfect | jewish, secretly property | tree rules |
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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