The Bahamas, sentence 340
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.
Cricket has been played in the Bahamas from 1846 and is the oldest sport played in the country today.
What happens: play, be · To what, where: Cricket, Bahamas, oldest sport, country
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: 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 | Cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 played | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 played | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 played | aux:pass |
| 4 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Bahamas | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bahamas | det |
| 7 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 played | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 1846 | case |
| 9 | 1846 | 1846 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 played | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sport | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sport | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sport | det |
| 13 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 sport | amod |
| 14 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 played | conj |
| 15 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 sport | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 country | det |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 played | obl |
| 19 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 played | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present · perfect · passive | Cricket | the Bahamas | from 1846 | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the oldest sport | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | play | participle | the oldest sport not said here | the country | today | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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