The Bahamas, sentence 348
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 only other sporting event that began before cricket was horse racing, which started in 1796.
Who acts: only other sporting event, cricket, horse racing · What happens: sport, begin, be, start · To what, where: 1796
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 (only other sporting event, cricket, horse racing), 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 | 5 event | det |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 event | amod |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 event | amod |
| 4 | sporting | sport | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 event | amod |
| 5 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 began | nsubj |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 event | acl:relcl |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 racing | case |
| 9 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 racing | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 racing | cop |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 racing | compound |
| 12 | racing | racing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 started | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 started | nsubj |
| 15 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 racing | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1796 | case |
| 17 | 1796 | 1796 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 started | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 event | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sport | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | begin | past | the only other sporting event | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is | past | cricket | before horse racing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | start | past | horse racing | 1796 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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