The Bahamas, sentence 327
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 shield is supported by a marlin and a flamingo, which are the national animals of the Bahamas.
Who acts: marlin · What happens: support, be · To what, where: shield, national animals
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 (marlin), 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 shield | det |
| 2 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 supported | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 supported | aux:pass |
| 4 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 marlin | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 marlin | det |
| 7 | marlin | marlin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 supported | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flamingo | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 flamingo | det |
| 10 | flamingo | flamingo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marlin | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 animals | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 animals | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 animals | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 animals | det |
| 15 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 animals | amod |
| 16 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 marlin | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Bahamas | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Bahamas | det |
| 19 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 animals | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 supported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | support | present · passive | a marlin and a flamingo and the national animals | the shield | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a marlin and a flamingo and the national animals | the national animals | of the Bahamas | 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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