The Bahamas, sentence 296

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.

While some slaves and free Africans in the colonial era were Muslim, the religion was absent until around the 1970s, when it experienced a revival.

Who acts: slaves, religion · What happens: be, experience · To what, where: revival

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 (slaves, religion), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	12 Muslim	mark
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 slaves	det
3	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Muslim	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Africans	cc
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Africans	amod
6	Africans	African	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 slaves	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 era	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 era	det
9	colonial	colonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 era	amod
10	era	era	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slaves	nmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Muslim	cop
12	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 absent	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Muslim	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 religion	det
15	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 absent	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 absent	cop
17	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	until	until	ADP	_	21 1970s	case
19	around	around	ADP	_	21 1970s	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 1970s	det
21	1970s	1970s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	17 absent	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 experienced	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 experienced	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 experienced	nsubj
25	experienced	experience	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 1970s	acl:relcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 revival	det
27	revival	revival	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 experienced	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 absent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	some slaves in the colonial era and free Africans			muslim property	tree rules
2	is	past	the religion		until the 1970s	absent property	tree rules
3	experience	past	religion	a revival			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer revival=Stimulus

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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