The Bahamas, sentence 349

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 most popular spectator sports are those imported from the United States, such as basketball, American football, and baseball, rather than from the British Isles, due to the country's close proximity to the United States, unlike their other Caribbean counterparts, where cricket, soccer, and netball have proven to be more popular.

What happens: import, prove, be · To what, where: popular spectator sports, United States, netball

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sports	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 popular	advmod
3	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sports	amod
4	spectator	spectator	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sports	compound
5	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 imported	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 imported	aux:pass
7	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 imported	nsubj:pass
8	imported	import	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 States	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 States	det
11	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 States	amod
12	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 imported	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 basketball	punct
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	16 basketball	case
15	as	as	ADP	_	14 such	fixed
16	basketball	basketball	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 States	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 football	punct
18	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 football	amod
19	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 basketball	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 baseball	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 baseball	cc
22	baseball	baseball	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 imported	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Isles	punct
24	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	29 Isles	cc
25	than	than	ADP	_	24 rather	fixed
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 Isles	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Isles	det
28	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Isles	amod
29	Isles	Isle	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 imported	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 proximity	punct
31	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	37 proximity	case
32	to	to	ADP	_	31 due	fixed
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 country	det
34	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 proximity	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 country	case
36	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 proximity	amod
37	proximity	proximity	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Isles	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	41 States	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 States	det
40	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 States	amod
41	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	37 proximity	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 counterparts	punct
43	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	47 counterparts	case
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 counterparts	nmod:poss
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 counterparts	amod
46	Caribbean	caribbean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 counterparts	amod
47	counterparts	counterpart	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 proximity	appos
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 cricket	punct
49	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	50 cricket	advmod
50	cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 counterparts	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 soccer	punct
52	soccer	soccer	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 cricket	appos
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 proven	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 proven	cc
55	netball	netball	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 proven	nsubj:pass
56	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 proven	aux
57	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 imported	conj
58	to	to	PART	_	61 popular	mark
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 popular	cop
60	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	61 popular	advmod
61	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 proven	advcl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 imported	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	import	present · passive	the popular spectator sports	the United States	from the British Isles and the country's close proximity to the United States; baseball obl	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from state=Initial_Location
2	prove	present · perfect · passive	netball			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive			popular property	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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