The Bahamas, sentence 37

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 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas theoretically divided the new territories between the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Portugal, placing the Bahamas in the Spanish sphere; however, they did little to press their claim on the ground.

Who acts: 1494 Treaty, Bahamas · What happens: divide, place, do, press, claim · To what, where: new territories, Bahamas, Spanish sphere, little, claim, ground

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 (1494 Treaty, 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	3 Treaty	det
2	1494	1494	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 Treaty	nummod
3	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 divided	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Tordesillas	case
5	Tordesillas	Tordesillas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Treaty	nmod
6	theoretically	theoretically	ADV	_	7 divided	advmod
7	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 territories	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 territories	amod
10	territories	territory	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 divided	obj
11	between	between	ADP	_	13 Kingdom	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Kingdom	det
13	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 territories	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Castile	case
15	Castile	Castile	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Kingdom	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Kingdom	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Kingdom	det
18	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Kingdom	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Portugal	case
20	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Kingdom	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 placing	punct
22	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 divided	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Bahamas	det
24	Bahamas	Bahamas	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 placing	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 sphere	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sphere	det
27	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sphere	amod
28	sphere	sphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 placing	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 did	punct
30	however	however	ADV	_	33 did	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 however	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 did	nsubj
33	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 divided	conj
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 did	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 press	mark
36	press	press	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 did	advcl
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 claim	nmod:poss
38	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 press	obj
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 ground	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 ground	det
41	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 claim	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 divided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	divide	past	the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas	the new territories		between the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Portugal; theoretically property	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Theme
2	place	gerund	the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas not said here	the Bahamas	the Spanish sphere		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bahamas=Theme in sphere=Destination
3	do	past	Bahamas	little		however property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Eventuality
4	press	to-infinitive	Bahamas not said here	Bahamas's claim	the ground		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme
5	claim		Bahamas		the ground		nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place

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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