The Bahamas, sentence 44
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.
These English Puritans established the first permanent European settlement on an island which they named Eleuthera, Greek for free.
Who acts: English Puritans, Puritans · What happens: establish, name · To what, where: first permanent European settlement, island
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 (English Puritans, Puritans), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 Puritans | det |
| 2 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Puritans | amod |
| 3 | Puritans | Puritan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 established | nsubj |
| 4 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 settlement | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 settlement | amod |
| 7 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 settlement | amod |
| 8 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 settlement | amod |
| 9 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 established | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 island | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 island | det |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 settlement | nmod |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 named | obj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 named | nsubj |
| 15 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 island | acl:relcl |
| 16 | Eleuthera | Eleuthera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 named | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Greek | punct |
| 18 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Eleuthera | amod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 free | case |
| 20 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Greek | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past | this English Puritans | the first permanent European settlement | a island | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent settlement=Theme on island=Source | |||
| 2 | name | past | Puritans = puritan | a island | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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