The Bahamas, sentence 53
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.
To put an end to the "Pirates' republic" and restore orderly government, Britain made the Bahamas a crown colony in 1718, which they dubbed "the Bahama islands" under the governorship of Woodes Rogers.
Who acts: Britain, crown colony · What happens: put, restore, make, dub · To what, where: end, orderly government, Bahamas, Bahama islands, governorship
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 (Britain, crown colony), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 put | mark |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 made | advcl |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 republic | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 republic | det |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 republic | punct |
| 8 | Pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 republic | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 Pirates | case |
| 10 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 republic | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 restore | cc |
| 13 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 put | conj |
| 14 | orderly | orderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 government | amod |
| 15 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 restore | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
| 17 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Bahamas | det |
| 20 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 colony | det |
| 22 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 colony | compound |
| 23 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Bahamas | appos |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 1718 | case |
| 25 | 1718 | 1718 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 colony | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dubbed | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 dubbed | nsubj |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 dubbed | nsubj |
| 29 | dubbed | dub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 colony | acl:relcl |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 islands | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 islands | det |
| 32 | Bahama | Bahama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 islands | compound |
| 33 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 dubbed | obj |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 islands | punct |
| 35 | under | under | ADP | _ | 37 governorship | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 governorship | det |
| 37 | governorship | governorship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dubbed | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Woodes | case |
| 39 | Woodes | Woodes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 governorship | nmod |
| 40 | Rogers | Rogers | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Woodes | flat |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | to-infinitive | Britain not said here | a end | to Pirates's republic | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal | |||
| 2 | restore | infinitive | Britain not said here | orderly government | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent government=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Britain | the Bahamas | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bahamas=Product | ||||
| 4 | dub | past | a crown colony in 1718 | the Bahama islands | the governorship of Woodes | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=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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