The Bahamas, sentence 341
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.
The Bahamas Cricket Association was formed in 1936, and from the 1940s to the 1970s, cricket was played amongst many Bahamians.
Who acts: many Bahamians · What happens: form, play · To what, where: Bahamas Cricket Association, 1936, cricket, 1940s
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 (many Bahamians), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Association | det |
| 2 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Association | compound |
| 3 | Cricket | Cricket | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Association | compound |
| 4 | Association | Association | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 formed | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 formed | aux:pass |
| 6 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1936 | case |
| 8 | 1936 | 1936 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 formed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 played | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 played | cc |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 1940s | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 1940s | det |
| 13 | 1940s | 1940 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 20 played | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 1970s | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 1970s | det |
| 16 | 1970s | 1970s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 13 1940s | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 1940s | punct |
| 18 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 played | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 played | aux:pass |
| 20 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 formed | parataxis |
| 21 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 23 Bahamians | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Bahamians | amod |
| 23 | Bahamians | Bahamian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 played | obl:agent |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past · passive | the Bahamas Cricket Association | 1936 | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | play | past · passive | many Bahamians | cricket | the 1940s to the 1970s | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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