The Bahamas, sentence 45
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.
They later settled New Providence, naming it Sayle's Island.
Who acts: Puritans · What happens: settle, name · To what, where: New Providence, settlement
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 settled | nsubj |
| 2 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 settled | advmod |
| 3 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Providence | amod |
| 5 | Providence | Providence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 settled | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 naming | punct |
| 7 | naming | name | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 settled | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 naming | obj |
| 9 | Sayle | Sayle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Island | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Sayle | case |
| 11 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 naming | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past | Puritans = puritan | New Providence | late property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme providence=Location | |||
| 2 | name | gerund | Puritans = puritan not said here | settlement | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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