The Bahamas, sentence 329
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.
On top of the shield is a conch shell, which represents the marine life of the island chain.
Who acts: conch shell · What happens: be, represent · To what, where: conch shell, top, marine life
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 (conch shell), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 top | case |
| 2 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shell | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 shield | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shield | det |
| 5 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 top | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 shell | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shell | det |
| 8 | conch | conch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shell | compound |
| 9 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 represents | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 represents | nsubj |
| 12 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 shell | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 life | det |
| 14 | marine | marine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 life | amod |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 represents | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 chain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chain | det |
| 18 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chain | compound |
| 19 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 life | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a conch shell | top of the shield | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | represent | present | a conch shell | the marine life of the island chain | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot life=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.
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