The Bahamas, sentence 48
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.
In 1670 King Charles II granted the islands to the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas in North America.
Who acts: Charles · What happens: grant · To what, where: islands, 1670
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 (Charles), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1670 | case |
| 2 | 1670 | 1670 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 granted | obl |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 granted | nsubj |
| 5 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 4 Charles | flat |
| 6 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 islands | det |
| 8 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 granted | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Proprietors | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Proprietors | det |
| 11 | Lords | Lord | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 Proprietors | compound |
| 12 | Proprietors | proprietor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 granted | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Carolinas | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Carolinas | det |
| 15 | Carolinas | Carolinas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Proprietors | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 America | case |
| 17 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 America | compound |
| 18 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Carolinas | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past | Charles King | the islands | 1670 | to the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas in North America goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent island=Theme to proprietor=Goal |
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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