The Bahamas, sentence 41
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 English had expressed an interest in the Bahamas as early as 1629.
What happens: express · To what, where: English
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 English | det |
| 2 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 expressed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 expressed | aux |
| 4 | expressed | express | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 interest | det |
| 6 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expressed | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Bahamas | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Bahamas | det |
| 9 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 interest | nmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 early | advmod |
| 11 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 expressed | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 1629 | case |
| 13 | 1629 | 1629 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 expressed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | express | past · perfect · passive | the English | as 1629; early property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination interest=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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