The Bahamas, sentence 54
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.
After a difficult struggle he succeeded in suppressing piracy.
Who acts: Britain · What happens: succeed, suppress · To what, where: piracy
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), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 struggle | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 struggle | det |
| 3 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 struggle | amod |
| 4 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 succeeded | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 succeeded | nsubj |
| 6 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 suppressing | mark |
| 8 | suppressing | suppress | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 succeeded | advcl |
| 9 | piracy | piracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 suppressing | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past | Britain | after a difficult struggle | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | suppress | gerund | Britain not said here | piracy | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piracy=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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