The Bahamas, sentence 311

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.

Junkanoo is a traditional Afro-Bahamian street parade of 'rushing', music, dance and art held in Nassau (and a few other settlements) every Boxing Day, New Year's Day and Independence Day.

Who acts: Junkanoo, traditional Bahamian street parade · What happens: be, rush, hold · To what, where: traditional Bahamian street parade, music, Nassau

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 (Junkanoo, traditional Bahamian street parade), 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	Junkanoo	Junkanoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 parade	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 parade	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 parade	det
4	traditional	traditional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 parade	amod
5	Afro	afro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 parade	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Afro	punct
7	Bahamian	bahamian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 parade	amod
8	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 parade	compound
9	parade	parade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 rushing	mark
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 rushing	punct
12	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 parade	acl
13	',	',	PUNCT	_	12 rushing	punct
14	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rushing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dance	punct
16	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 music	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 art	cc
18	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 music	conj
19	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 music	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 Nassau	case
21	Nassau	Nassau	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 held	obl
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 settlements	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 settlements	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 settlements	det
25	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 settlements	amod
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 settlements	amod
27	settlements	settlement	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 Nassau	appos
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 settlements	punct
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 Boxing	det
30	Boxing	boxing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Day	compound
31	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Nassau	appos
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Day	punct
33	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Year	compound
34	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Day	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Year	case
36	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Nassau	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 Day	cc
38	Independence	Independence	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Day	compound
39	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Nassau	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 parade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	Junkanoo	a traditional Bahamian street parade		tree rules
2	rush	gerund	a traditional Bahamian street parade not said here	music and dance and art		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme music=Trajectory
3	hold	participle		music and dance and art not said here	Nassau and New Year's Day and Independence Day	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nassau=Location

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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