The Bahamas, sentence 307
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.
A form of African-based folk magic is practised by some Bahamians, mainly in the Family Islands (out-islands) of the Bahamas.
Who acts: Bahamians · What happens: base, practise, form · To what, where: form, Family Islands, African folk magic
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 form | det |
| 2 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 practised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 magic | case |
| 4 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 magic | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 African | punct |
| 6 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 magic | case |
| 7 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 magic | compound |
| 8 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 form | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 practised | aux:pass |
| 10 | practised | practise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Bahamians | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 Bahamians | det |
| 13 | Bahamians | Bahamian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 practised | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Islands | punct |
| 15 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 19 Islands | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Islands | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Islands | det |
| 18 | Family | Family | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Islands | compound |
| 19 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 practised | obl |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 islands | punct |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 islands | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 out | punct |
| 23 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 practised | obl |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 islands | punct |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Bahamas | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Bahamas | det |
| 27 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 islands | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 practised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | base | participle | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | practise | present · passive | some Bahamians | a form of African folk magic | the Family Islands | out islands of the Bahamas | tree rules | ||
| 3 | form | African folk magic | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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