The Bahamas, sentence 5
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.
The Bahama islands were inhabited by the Arawak and Lucayans, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taíno, for many centuries.
Who acts: Arawak · What happens: inhabit, speak · To what, where: Bahama islands · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Arawak), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 islands | det |
| 2 | Bahama | Bahama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 islands | compound |
| 3 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 inhabited | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 inhabited | aux:pass |
| 5 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Arawak | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Arawak | det |
| 8 | Arawak | Arawak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 inhabited | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Lucayans | cc |
| 10 | Lucayans | Lucayan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Arawak | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 branch | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 branch | det |
| 13 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Arawak | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Taíno | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Taíno | det |
| 16 | Arawakan | Arawakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 speaking | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Arawakan | punct |
| 18 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 Taíno | amod |
| 19 | Taíno | Taíno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 branch | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 centuries | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 centuries | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 centuries | amod |
| 23 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 inhabited | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 inhabited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inhabit | past · passive | the Arawak and Lucayans | the Bahama islands | century | tree rules | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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