The Bahamas, sentence 31

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 first inhabitants of the Bahamas were Indigenous people Taíno, who moved into the uninhabited southern islands from Hispaniola and Cuba sometime between AD 500 and 800, having migrated there from mainland South America; they came to be known as the Lucayan people.

Who acts: first inhabitants, Indigenous people, inhabitants · What happens: be, move, have, migrate, come, know · To what, where: Indigenous people, uninhabited southern islands, mainland

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 (first inhabitants, Indigenous people, inhabitants), 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	3 inhabitants	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 inhabitants	amod
3	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 people	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Bahamas	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bahamas	det
6	Bahamas	Bahamas	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 inhabitants	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 people	cop
8	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	Taíno	Taíno	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 people	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 moved	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 moved	nsubj
13	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 people	acl:relcl
14	into	into	ADP	_	18 islands	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 islands	det
16	uninhabited	uninhabited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 islands	amod
17	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 islands	amod
18	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 moved	obl
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 Hispaniola	case
20	Hispaniola	Hispaniola	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 islands	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Cuba	cc
22	Cuba	Cuba	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Hispaniola	conj
23	sometime	sometime	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 AD	advmod
24	between	between	ADP	_	25 AD	case
25	AD	ad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 moved	obl
26	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 AD	flat
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 800	cc
28	800	800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 500	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 having	punct
30	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 moved	advcl
31	migrated	migrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 having	xcomp
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 migrated	advmod
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 mainland	case
34	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 migrated	obl
35	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 America	compound
36	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 mainland	appos
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 came	punct
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 came	nsubj
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 people	parataxis
40	to	to	PART	_	42 known	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 known	aux:pass
42	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 came	advcl
43	as	as	ADP	_	46 people	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 people	det
45	Lucayan	Lucayan	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 people	compound
46	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 known	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 people	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the first inhabitants of the Bahamas	Indigenous people			tree rules
2	move	past	Indigenous people		the uninhabited southern islands from Hispaniola and Cuba	between AD	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into island=Source between ad=Trajectory
3	have	gerund	Indigenous people not said here				tree rules
4	migrate	participle	Indigenous people not said here		mainland; there		tree rules
5	come	past	inhabitants = inhabitant				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	know	to-infinitive · passive	inhabitants = inhabitant not said here			as the Lucayan people	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as people=Attribute

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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