The Bahamas, sentence 46
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.
Life proved harder than envisaged however, and many – including Sayle – chose to return to Bermuda.
Who acts: Life, many · What happens: prove, envisage, include, choose, return · To what, where: Bermuda
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 (Life, many), 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 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 proved | nsubj |
| 2 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 proved | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 5 envisaged | mark |
| 5 | envisaged | envisage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 harder | advcl |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 envisaged | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chose | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 chose | cc |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chose | nsubj |
| 10 | – | – | PUNCT | _ | 9 many | punct |
| 11 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 Sayle | case |
| 12 | Sayle | Sayle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 chose | obl |
| 13 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Sayle | punct |
| 14 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 proved | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 return | mark |
| 16 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 chose | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Bermuda | case |
| 18 | Bermuda | Bermuda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 return | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | past | Life | hard property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | envisage | participle | Life not said here | however property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | include | gerund | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | choose | past | many | include Sayle | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | return | to-infinitive | many not said here | Bermuda | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bermuda=Result |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «The Bahamas», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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