The Bahamas, sentence 318
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.
Bahamians have created a rich literature of poetry, short stories, plays and short fictional works.
What happens: create · To what, where: Bahamians
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: 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 | Bahamians | bahamian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 created | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 created | aux |
| 3 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 literature | det |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 literature | amod |
| 6 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 created | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 poetry | case |
| 8 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 literature | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stories | punct |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stories | amod |
| 11 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 created | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 plays | punct |
| 13 | plays | play | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stories | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 works | cc |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 works | amod |
| 16 | fictional | fictional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 works | amod |
| 17 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stories | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 created | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | present · perfect · passive | Bahamians | tree rules |
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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