The Bahamas, sentence 50
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.
Piracy and attacks from hostile foreign powers were a constant threat.
Who acts: Piracy · What happens: be · To what, where: constant threat
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 (Piracy), 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 | Piracy | piracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 threat | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 attacks | cc |
| 3 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Piracy | conj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 powers | case |
| 5 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 powers | amod |
| 6 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 powers | amod |
| 7 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 attacks | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 threat | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 threat | det |
| 10 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 threat | amod |
| 11 | threat | threat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 threat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Piracy and attacks from hostile foreign powers | a constant threat | tree rules |
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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