The Bahamas, sentence 42

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.

However, it was not until 1648 that the first English settlers arrived on the islands.

Who acts: interest, first English settlers · What happens: not be, arrive · To what, where: islands

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 (interest, first English settlers), 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	However	however	ADV	_	7 1648	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 1648	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 1648	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 1648	advmod
6	until	until	ADP	_	7 1648	case
7	1648	1648	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 arrived	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 arrived	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 settlers	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 settlers	amod
11	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 settlers	amod
12	settlers	settler	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 arrived	nsubj
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 islands	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 islands	det
16	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 arrived	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	interest				until 1648	however property	tree rules
2	arrive	past	the first English settlers			the islands			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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