The Bahamas, sentence 30
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.
The Bahamas is one of two countries whose official short name starts with the definite article, the other being The Gambia.
Who acts: Bahamas, official short name · What happens: be, start · To what, where: one, other Gambia
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 (Bahamas, official short name), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bahamas | det |
| 2 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 countries | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 countries | nummod |
| 7 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 starts | obl |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 9 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 name | amod |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 name | amod |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 starts | nsubj |
| 12 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 article | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 article | det |
| 15 | definite | definite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 article | amod |
| 16 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 starts | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Gambia | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Gambia | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Gambia | amod |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 Gambia | cop |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Gambia | det |
| 22 | Gambia | Gambia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 article | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Bahamas | one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start | present | official short name | of two countries; with the definite article | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with article=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | the other Gambia | 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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