The Bahamas, sentence 347
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.
Whiles the main and only cricket grounds on Grand Bahama is the Lucaya Cricket Oval.
Who acts: Grand Bahama · What happens: while, be · To what, where: main, Lucaya Cricket Oval
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 (Grand Bahama), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whiles | while | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 main | det |
| 3 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Whiles | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grounds | cc |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 grounds | advmod |
| 6 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grounds | compound |
| 7 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 main | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Oval | case |
| 9 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Bahama | amod |
| 10 | Bahama | Bahama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Oval | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Oval | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Oval | det |
| 13 | Lucaya | Lucaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Oval | compound |
| 14 | Cricket | Cricket | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Oval | compound |
| 15 | Oval | Oval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 grounds | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whiles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | while | present | the main and cricket grounds | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Grand Bahama | the Lucaya Cricket Oval | 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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