The Bahamas, sentence 308
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 practice of obeah is illegal in the Bahamas and punishable in law.
Who acts: practice · What happens: be, practice · To what, where: Bahamas, law, obeah
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 (practice), 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 practice | det |
| 2 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 illegal | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 obeah | case |
| 4 | obeah | obeah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 practice | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 illegal | cop |
| 6 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Bahamas | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Bahamas | det |
| 9 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 illegal | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 punishable | cc |
| 11 | punishable | punishable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 illegal | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 law | case |
| 13 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 punishable | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 illegal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the practice of obeah | the Bahamas | illegal property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | the practice of obeah not said here | law | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | practice | obeah | nom practice «act 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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