The Bahamas, sentence 324
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.
Its colours symbolise the strength of the Bahamian people; its design reflects aspects of the natural environment (sun and sea) and economic and social development.
Who acts: colours, design, flag · What happens: symbolise, reflect, design · To what, where: strength, aspects
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 (colours, design, flag), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 colours | nmod:poss |
| 2 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 symbolise | nsubj |
| 3 | symbolise | symbolise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 strength | det |
| 5 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 symbolise | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 8 | Bahamian | bahamian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 strength | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 reflects | punct |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 design | nmod:poss |
| 12 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reflects | nsubj |
| 13 | reflects | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 symbolise | conj |
| 14 | aspects | aspect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 reflects | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 environment | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 environment | det |
| 17 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 environment | amod |
| 18 | environment | environment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 aspects | nmod |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 sun | punct |
| 20 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 environment | appos |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sea | cc |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sun | conj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 sun | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 development | cc |
| 25 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 development | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 social | cc |
| 27 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 economic | conj |
| 28 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 environment | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 symbolise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | symbolise | present | flag's colours | the strength of the Bahamian people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reflect | present | flag's design | aspects of the natural environment and economic development | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | design | flag | nom design «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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