The Bahamas, sentence 51

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 1684 the Spanish corsair Juan de Alcon raided the capital Charles Town (later renamed Nassau), and in 1703 a joint Franco-Spanish expedition briefly occupied Nassau during the War of the Spanish Succession.

Who acts: Spanish corsair, Charles, Franco Spanish expedition · What happens: raid, rename, occupy · To what, where: capital, 1684, Nassau, 1703

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 (Spanish corsair, Charles, Franco Spanish expedition), 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 1684	case
2	1684	1684	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 raided	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 corsair	det
4	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 corsair	amod
5	corsair	corsair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 raided	nsubj
6	Juan	Juan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 corsair	appos
7	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Juan	flat
8	Alcon	Alcon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Juan	flat
9	raided	raid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 capital	det
11	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 raided	obj
12	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 capital	appos
13	Town	Town	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Charles	flat
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 renamed	punct
15	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 renamed	advmod
16	renamed	rename	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Charles	acl:relcl
17	Nassau	Nassau	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 renamed	obj
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 Nassau	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 occupied	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 occupied	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 1703	case
22	1703	1703	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 occupied	obl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 Franco	det
24	joint	joint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Franco	amod
25	Franco	Franco	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 expedition	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Franco	punct
27	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 expedition	amod
28	expedition	expedition	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 occupied	nsubj
29	briefly	briefly	ADV	_	30 occupied	advmod
30	occupied	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 raided	conj
31	Nassau	Nassau	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 occupied	obj
32	during	during	ADP	_	34 War	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 War	det
34	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 occupied	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 Succession	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Succession	det
37	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Succession	amod
38	Succession	Succession	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 War	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 raided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raid	past	the Spanish corsair	the capital	1684			vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent capital=Location
2	rename	past	Charles not said here	Nassau			late property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent nassau=Result
3	occupy	past	Franco Spanish expedition	Nassau	1703	during the War of the Spanish Succession	briefly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nassau=Experiencer

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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