The Bahamas, sentence 52

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.

During proprietary rule the Bahamas became a haven for pirates, including Blackbeard (circa 1680–1718).

Who acts: Bahamas · What happens: become · To what, where: haven

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 (Bahamas), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 rule	case
2	proprietary	proprietary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rule	amod
3	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bahamas	det
5	Bahamas	Bahamas	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 haven	det
8	haven	haven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 pirates	case
10	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 haven	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Blackbeard	punct
12	including	including	ADP	_	13 Blackbeard	case
13	Blackbeard	Blackbeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 pirates	nmod
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 1680	punct
15	circa	circa	ADP	_	16 1680	case
16	1680	1680	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 Blackbeard	appos
17	–	–	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	18 1718	case
18	1718	1718	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 1680	nmod
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 1680	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the Bahamas	a haven for pirates including Blackbeard			during proprietary rule		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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