The Bahamas, sentence 35

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Some researchers believe the site to be present-day San Salvador Island (formerly known as Watling's Island), situated in the southeastern Bahamas, whilst an alternative theory holds that Columbus landed to the southeast on Samana Cay, according to calculations made in 1986 by National Geographic writer and editor Joseph Judge, based on Columbus' log.

Who acts: researchers, alternative theory, Columbus · What happens: believe, be, know, situate, hold, land · To what, where: site, present day, southeastern Bahamas, Samana Cay, calculations, 1986

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 (researchers, alternative theory, Columbus), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 researchers	det
2	researchers	researcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 believe	nsubj
3	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 site	det
5	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 believe	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	10 day	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 day	cop
8	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 present	punct
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 believe	obl:unmarked
11	San	San	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 day	appos
12	Salvador	Salvador	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 San	flat
13	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 San	flat
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 known	punct
15	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	16 known	advmod
16	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 San	parataxis
17	as	as	ADP	_	20 Island	case
18	Watling	Watling	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Island	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Watling	case
20	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 known	obl
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 known	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 situated	punct
23	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 day	acl
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 Bahamas	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Bahamas	det
26	southeastern	southeastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Bahamas	amod
27	Bahamas	Bahamas	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 situated	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 holds	punct
29	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	33 holds	mark
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 theory	det
31	alternative	alternative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 theory	amod
32	theory	theory	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 holds	nsubj
33	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	parataxis
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 landed	mark
35	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 landed	nsubj
36	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 holds	ccomp
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 southeast	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 southeast	det
39	southeast	southeast	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 landed	obl
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 Cay	case
41	Samana	Samana	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Cay	compound
42	Cay	Cay	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 landed	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 calculations	punct
44	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 calculations	case
45	to	to	ADP	_	44 according	fixed
46	calculations	calculation	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 holds	conj
47	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 calculations	acl
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 1986	case
49	1986	1986	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	47 made	obl
50	by	by	ADP	_	53 writer	case
51	National	National	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Geographic	flat
52	Geographic	Geographic	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 writer	compound
53	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 made	obl:agent
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 editor	cc
55	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 writer	conj
56	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 Judge	compound
57	Judge	Judge	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 writer	appos
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 based	punct
59	based	base	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 calculations	acl
60	on	on	ADP	_	63 log	case
61	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 log	nmod:poss
62	'	's	PART	_	61 Columbus	case
63	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 based	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe	present	some researchers	the site			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer site=Stimulus
2	is a	to-infinitive		present day			tree rules
3	know	participle				as Watling's Island; formerly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as island=Attribute
4	situate	participle		present day not said here	the southeastern Bahamas		vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bahamas=Destination
5	hold	present	a alternative theory				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	land	past	Columbus		Samana Cay	to the southeast	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on cay=Destination
7	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
8	make	participle		calculations not said here	1986		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
9	base	participle		calculations not said here	Columbus's log		vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on log=Source

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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