The Bahamas, sentence 38

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 Spanish did, however, exploit the Native Lucayan peoples, many of whom were enslaved and sent to Hispaniola for use as forced labour.

Who acts: you · What happens: be, exploit, enslave, send, force · To what, where: Native Lucayan peoples, many, Hispaniola

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 (you), 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 Spanish	det
2	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 exploit	advcl
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Spanish	cop
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 exploit	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	7 exploit	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	exploit	exploit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 peoples	det
9	Native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 peoples	amod
10	Lucayan	Lucayan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 peoples	compound
11	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 exploit	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 enslaved	punct
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 enslaved	nsubj:pass
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 whom	case
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 enslaved	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 enslaved	aux:pass
17	enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 peoples	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sent	cc
19	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 enslaved	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Hispaniola	case
21	Hispaniola	Hispaniola	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 use	case
23	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obl
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 labour	case
25	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 labour	amod
26	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 use	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 exploit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	you not said here			spanish property	tree rules
2	exploit	imperative	you not said here	the Native Lucayan peoples		however property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
3	enslave	past · passive		many			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	send	participle			Hispaniola	for use as forced labour	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to hispaniola=Destination
5	force	participle					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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