The Bahamas, sentence 363
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 Bahamas first participated at the Olympic Games in 1952, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except when they participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Who acts: Bahamas · What happens: participate, send, compete, lead, boycott · To what, where: Olympic Games, athletes, Summer Olympic Games, 1980 Summer Olympics
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 (Bahamas), 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 | 2 Bahamas | det |
| 2 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 participated | nsubj |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 participated | advmod |
| 4 | participated | participate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Games | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Games | det |
| 7 | Olympic | Olympic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Games | compound |
| 8 | Games | Game | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 participated | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1952 | case |
| 10 | 1952 | 1952 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 participated | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sent | cc |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sent | aux |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 participated | parataxis |
| 15 | athletes | athlete | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sent | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 compete | mark |
| 17 | compete | compete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sent | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Games | case |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 Games | det |
| 20 | Summer | Summer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Games | compound |
| 21 | Olympic | Olympic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Games | compound |
| 22 | Games | Game | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 compete | obl |
| 23 | since | since | ADP | _ | 24 then | case |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 sent | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 participated | punct |
| 26 | except | except | ADP | _ | 29 participated | mark |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 participated | advmod |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 participated | nsubj |
| 29 | participated | participate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sent | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 boycott | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 boycott | det |
| 32 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 led | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 American | punct |
| 34 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 boycott | amod |
| 35 | boycott | boycott | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 participated | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Olympics | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Olympics | det |
| 38 | 1980 | 1980 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 Olympics | nummod |
| 39 | Summer | Summer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Olympics | compound |
| 40 | Olympics | Olympic | PROPN | Number=Plur | 35 boycott | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 participated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | participate | participle | the Bahamas | the Olympic Games | in 1952; first property | vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 1952=Theme | |||
| 2 | send | present · perfect | athletes | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent athlete=Theme | |||||
| 3 | compete | to-infinitive | every Summer Olympic Games | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | participate | past | Bahamas | in the led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics | vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in boycott=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lead | participle | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 6 | boycott | the 1980 Summer Olympics | nom boycott «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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