The Bahamas, sentence 303

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 culture of the islands is a mixture of African (Afro-Bahamians being the largest ethnicity), British and American due to historical family ties, migration to the Bahamas of people freed from enslavement in the United States, and as the dominant country in the region and source of most tourists.

Who acts: culture, Afro Bahamians · What happens: be, free · To what, where: mixture, African largest ethnicity, people, enslavement

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 (culture, Afro Bahamians), 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 culture	det
2	culture	culture	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mixture	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 islands	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 islands	det
5	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 culture	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mixture	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mixture	det
8	mixture	mixture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 ethnicity	mark
10	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ethnicity	amod
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 Bahamians	punct
12	Afro	Afro	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Bahamians	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Afro	punct
14	Bahamians	Bahamian	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 ethnicity	nsubj
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 ethnicity	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ethnicity	det
17	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 ethnicity	amod
18	ethnicity	ethnicity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mixture	appos
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 ethnicity	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 British	punct
21	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mixture	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 American	cc
23	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 British	conj
24	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	28 ties	case
25	to	to	ADP	_	24 due	fixed
26	historical	historical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ties	amod
27	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ties	compound
28	ties	tie	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 American	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 migration	punct
30	migration	migration	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ties	appos
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 Bahamas	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Bahamas	det
33	Bahamas	Bahamas	PROPN	Number=Plur	30 migration	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 people	case
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 Bahamas	nmod
36	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 people	acl
37	from	from	ADP	_	38 enslavement	case
38	enslavement	enslavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 freed	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 States	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 States	det
41	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 States	amod
42	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	38 enslavement	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 country	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 country	cc
45	as	as	ADP	_	48 country	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 country	det
47	dominant	dominant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 country	amod
48	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 British	conj
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 region	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 region	det
51	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 country	nmod
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 source	cc
53	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 region	conj
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 tourists	case
55	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	56 tourists	amod
56	tourists	tourist	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 source	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mixture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the culture of the islands	a mixture		tree rules
2	is a	gerund	Afro Bahamians	the African largest ethnicity		tree rules
3	free	participle		people not said here	enslavement in the United States	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «The Bahamas», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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