The Bahamas, sentence 34
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.
While there is a general consensus that this island lay within the Bahamas, precisely which island Columbus landed on is a matter of scholarly debate.
Who acts: general consensus, island, Columbus · What happens: be, lie, land on · To what, where: general consensus, island, matter
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 (general consensus, island, 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 is | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 island | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 consensus | det |
| 5 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 consensus | amod |
| 6 | consensus | consensus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 lay | mark |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 island | det |
| 9 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 consensus | acl |
| 11 | within | within | ADP | _ | 13 Bahamas | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Bahamas | det |
| 13 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 lay | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 15 | precisely | precisely | ADV | _ | 17 island | advmod |
| 16 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 17 island | det |
| 17 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 matter | nsubj |
| 18 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 landed | nsubj |
| 19 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 island | acl:relcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 landed | obl |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 matter | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 matter | det |
| 23 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 debate | case |
| 25 | scholarly | scholarly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 debate | amod |
| 26 | debate | debate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 matter | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a general consensus | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | this island | a general consensus not said here | within the Bahamas | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location consensus=Theme | |||
| 3 | land on | past | Columbus | which island not said here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent island=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | which island | a matter | of scholarly debate | 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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