The Bahamas, sentence 40
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.
As a result of these depredations the population of the Bahamas was severely diminished.
What happens: diminish, result · To what, where: population, depredations
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 result | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 result | det |
| 3 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 diminished | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 depredations | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 depredations | det |
| 6 | depredations | depredation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 result | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 population | det |
| 8 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 diminished | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Bahamas | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bahamas | det |
| 11 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 population | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 diminished | aux:pass |
| 13 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 14 diminished | advmod |
| 14 | diminished | diminish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 diminished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | diminish | past · passive | the population of the Bahamas | as a result of this depredations; severely property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | result | this depredations | nom result «phenomenon 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.
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