The Bahamas, sentence 331
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.
Below this is the actual shield, the main symbol of which is a ship representing the Santa María of Christopher Columbus, shown sailing beneath the sun. Along the bottom, below the shield appears a banner upon which is the national motto:
Who acts: this, ship, shield, banner · What happens: be, represent, show, sail, appear · To what, where: actual shield, ship, Santa María, bottom, banner
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 (this, ship, shield, banner), 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 | Below | below | ADP | _ | 6 shield | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 shield | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shield | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shield | det |
| 5 | actual | actual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shield | amod |
| 6 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 symbol | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 symbol | det |
| 9 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 symbol | amod |
| 10 | symbol | symbol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shield | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 ship | obl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ship | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ship | det |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 symbol | nmod |
| 16 | representing | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 ship | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 María | det |
| 18 | Santa | Santa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 María | compound |
| 19 | María | María | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 representing | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Christopher | case |
| 21 | Christopher | Christopher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 María | nmod |
| 22 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 María | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shown | punct |
| 24 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 shield | conj |
| 25 | sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 shown | xcomp |
| 26 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 28 sun. | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sun. | det |
| 28 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sailing | obl |
| 29 | Along | along | ADP | _ | 31 bottom | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bottom | det |
| 31 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sailing | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 appears | punct |
| 33 | below | below | ADP | _ | 36 appears | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 shield | det |
| 35 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 appears | nsubj |
| 36 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 shown | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 banner | det |
| 38 | banner | banner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 appears | obj |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 44 motto | case |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 motto | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 motto | cop |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 motto | det |
| 43 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 motto | amod |
| 44 | motto | motto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 banner | nmod |
| 45 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 shield | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this | the actual shield | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a ship | of the main symbol | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | represent | gerund | a ship not said here | the Santa María of Christopher | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot maría=Theme | ||||
| 4 | show | participle | this not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | sail | gerund | this not said here | the bottom | beneath the sun. | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along bottom=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | appear | present | the shield | a banner | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location banner=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | present | a banner | upon the national motto | 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.
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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