The Bahamas, sentence 36
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.
On the landfall island, Columbus made first contact with the Lucayans and exchanged goods with them, claiming the islands for the Crown of Castile, before proceeding to explore the larger isles of the Greater Antilles.
Who acts: Columbus · What happens: make, exchange, claim, proceed, explore · To what, where: first contact, landfall island, goods, islands, larger isles
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 (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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 island | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 island | det |
| 3 | landfall | landfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 island | compound |
| 4 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 island | punct |
| 6 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 contact | amod |
| 9 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Lucayans | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Lucayans | det |
| 12 | Lucayans | Lucayan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 contact | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 exchanged | cc |
| 14 | exchanged | exchange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 15 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 exchanged | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 exchanged | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 claiming | punct |
| 19 | claiming | claim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 exchanged | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 islands | det |
| 21 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 claiming | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 Crown | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Crown | det |
| 24 | Crown | Crown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 islands | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Castile | case |
| 26 | Castile | Castile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Crown | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 proceeding | punct |
| 28 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 29 proceeding | mark |
| 29 | proceeding | proceed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 claiming | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 explore | mark |
| 31 | explore | explore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 proceeding | xcomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 isles | det |
| 33 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 isles | amod |
| 34 | isles | isle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 explore | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Antilles | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Antilles | det |
| 37 | Greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 Antilles | amod |
| 38 | Antilles | Antilles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 isles | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Columbus | first contact | the landfall island | with the Lucayans | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contact=Product | ||
| 2 | exchange | past | Columbus not said here | goods | with islands = island | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent goods=Theme with they=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | claim speech: other | gerund | Columbus not said here | the islands | for the Crown of Castile | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent island=Topic | |||
| 4 | proceed | gerund | Columbus not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | explore | to-infinitive | Columbus not said here | the larger isles of the Greater Antilles | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent isle=Location |
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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