The Bahamas, sentence 305
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.
Research shows that storytelling, festivals, and shared memories bring people together across the islands.
Who acts: Research, shared memories · What happens: show, share, bring · To what, where: storytelling, people, islands
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 (Research, shared memories), 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 | Research | research | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shows | nsubj |
| 2 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 storytelling | mark |
| 4 | storytelling | storytelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shows | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 festivals | punct |
| 6 | festivals | festival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 storytelling | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bring | cc |
| 9 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 memories | amod |
| 10 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bring | nsubj |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shows | conj |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 bring | advmod |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 16 islands | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 islands | det |
| 16 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bring | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Research | storytelling and festivals | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent storytelling=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | share | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | bring | present | shared memories | people | the islands | together property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument people=Destination |
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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