The Bahamas, sentence 325

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 flag is a black equilateral triangle against the mast, superimposed on a horizontal background made up of three equal stripes of aquamarine, gold and aquamarine.

Who acts: flag · What happens: be, superimpose, make up · To what, where: black equilateral triangle, horizontal background

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flag	det
2	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 triangle	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 triangle	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 triangle	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 triangle	amod
6	equilateral	equilateral	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 triangle	compound
7	triangle	triangle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	against	against	ADP	_	10 mast	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mast	det
10	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 triangle	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 superimposed	punct
12	superimposed	superimpose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 triangle	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 background	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 background	det
15	horizontal	horizontal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 background	compound
16	background	background	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 superimposed	obl
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 background	acl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 made	compound:prt
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 stripes	case
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 stripes	nummod
21	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 stripes	amod
22	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 made	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 aquamarine	case
24	aquamarine	aquamarine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stripes	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gold	punct
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 aquamarine	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 aquamarine	cc
28	aquamarine	aquamarine	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 aquamarine	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 triangle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the flag	a black equilateral triangle		against the mast	tree rules
2	superimpose	participle	the flag not said here		a horizontal background		vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on background=Destination
3	make up	participle		a horizontal background not said here		of three equal stripes of aquamarine and gold and aquamarine	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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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