The Bahamas, sentence 4
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 Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes the Bahamas' territory as encompassing 180000 sqmi of ocean space.
Who acts: Royal Bahamas Defence Force, territory · What happens: describe, encompass · To what, where: territory, 180000 sqmi
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 (Royal Bahamas Defence Force, territory), 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 | 5 Force | det |
| 2 | Royal | Royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Force | amod |
| 3 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Force | compound |
| 4 | Defence | Defence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Force | compound |
| 5 | Force | Force | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 describes | nsubj |
| 6 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Bahamas | det |
| 8 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 territory | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 Bahamas | case |
| 10 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 describes | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 encompassing | mark |
| 12 | encompassing | encompass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 territory | acl |
| 13 | 180000 | 180000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 sqmi | nummod |
| 14 | sqmi | sqmi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 encompassing | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 space | case |
| 16 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 space | compound |
| 17 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sqmi | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 describes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present | the Royal Bahamas Defence Force | the Bahamas's territory | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent territory=Theme | ||||
| 2 | encompass | gerund | the Bahamas's territory not said here | 180000 sqmi of ocean space | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sqmi=Theme |
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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