The Bahamas, sentence 33
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.
Columbus' first landfall in what was to Europeans a "New World" was on an island he named San Salvador (known to the Lucayans as Guanahani).
Who acts: first landfall, Columbus · What happens: be, name, know · To what, where: island, San
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 (first landfall, Columbus), 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 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 landfall | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Columbus | case |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 landfall | amod |
| 4 | landfall | landfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 island | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 what | case |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 landfall | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Europeans | cop |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Europeans | case |
| 9 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 World | nmod:poss |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 World | det |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 World | punct |
| 12 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 World | amod |
| 13 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 World | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 island | cop |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 island | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 island | det |
| 18 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 named | nsubj |
| 20 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 island | acl:relcl |
| 21 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 named | obj |
| 22 | Salvador | Salvador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 San | flat |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 known | punct |
| 24 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 island | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Lucayans | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Lucayans | det |
| 27 | Lucayans | Lucayan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 known | obl |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 Guanahani | case |
| 29 | Guanahani | Guanahani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Lucayans | nmod |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 known | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 island | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | to Europeans | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Columbus's first landfall in a island | a island | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | past | Columbus | San | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent san=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | participle | to the Lucayans as Guanahani | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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