The Bahamas, sentence 49
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 rented the islands from the king with rights of trading, tax, appointing governors, and administering the country from their base on New Providence.
Who acts: islands · What happens: rent, appoint, administer · To what, where: islands, governors, country, base
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 (islands), 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 | 2 rented | nsubj |
| 2 | rented | rent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 islands | det |
| 4 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rented | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 islands | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 rights | case |
| 9 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 king | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 trading | case |
| 11 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rights | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tax | punct |
| 13 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 appointing | punct |
| 15 | appointing | appoint | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 rented | advcl |
| 16 | governors | governor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 appointing | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 administering | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 administering | cc |
| 19 | administering | administer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 rented | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 country | det |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 administering | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 base | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 base | nmod:poss |
| 24 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 administering | obl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 Providence | case |
| 26 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Providence | amod |
| 27 | Providence | Providence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 base | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rent | past | islands = island | the islands | from the king with rights of trading and tax | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent island=Theme from king=Source | |||
| 2 | appoint | gerund | islands = island not said here | governors | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent governor=Theme | ||||
| 3 | administer | gerund | islands = island not said here | the country | islands's base on New Providence | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent country=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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