The Bahamas, sentence 39

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 slaves suffered harsh conditions and most died from contracting diseases to which they had no immunity; half of the Lucayans died from smallpox alone.

Who acts: slaves, half · What happens: suffer, die, contract, have · To what, where: harsh conditions, contracting diseases, immunity, smallpox

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 (slaves, half), 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 slaves	det
2	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 suffered	nsubj
3	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 conditions	amod
5	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 suffered	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 died	cc
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 died	advmod
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 suffered	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 diseases	case
10	contracting	contract	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 diseases	amod
11	diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 died	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 had	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 diseases	acl:relcl
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 immunity	det
17	immunity	immunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 died	punct
19	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	23 died	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Lucayans	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Lucayans	det
22	Lucayans	Lucayan	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 half	nmod
23	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 suffered	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 smallpox	case
25	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 died	obl
26	alone	alone	ADV	_	23 died	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 suffered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suffer	past	the slaves	harsh conditions			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer condition=Stimulus
2	die	past	the slaves not said here		contracting diseases		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from disease=Causer
3	contract	gerund					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	have	past	slaves = slave	no immunity		to contracting diseases	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent immunity=Patient
5	die	past	half of the Lucayans		smallpox	alone property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from smallpox=Causer

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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