The Bahamas, sentence 43
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.
Known as the Eleutherian Adventurers and led by William Sayle, they migrated from Bermuda seeking greater religious freedom.
Who acts: settlers · What happens: know, lead, migrate, seek · To what, where: Bermuda, greater religious freedom
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 (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 | Known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 Adventurers | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Adventurers | det |
| 4 | Eleutherian | eleutherian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Adventurers | amod |
| 5 | Adventurers | adventurer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Known | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 led | cc |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Known | conj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 William | case |
| 9 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 led | obl:agent |
| 10 | Sayle | Sayle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 William | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 migrated | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 migrated | nsubj |
| 13 | migrated | migrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Known | parataxis |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Bermuda | case |
| 15 | Bermuda | Bermuda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 migrated | obl |
| 16 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 migrated | advcl |
| 17 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 freedom | amod |
| 18 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 freedom | amod |
| 19 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seeking | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | as the Eleutherian Adventurers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as adventurer=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | lead | participle | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 3 | migrate | past | settlers = settler | Bermuda | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seek | gerund | settlers = settler not said here | greater religious freedom | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=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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