The Bahamas, sentence 55
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 1720 the Spanish attacked Nassau during the War of the Quadruple Alliance.
Who acts: Spanish · What happens: attack · To what, where: Nassau, 1720
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), 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 1720 | case |
| 2 | 1720 | 1720 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 attacked | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Spanish | det |
| 4 | Spanish | Spanish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 attacked | nsubj |
| 5 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Nassau | Nassau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 attacked | obj |
| 7 | during | during | ADP | _ | 9 War | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 War | det |
| 9 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 attacked | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Alliance | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Alliance | det |
| 12 | Quadruple | Quadruple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Alliance | compound |
| 13 | Alliance | Alliance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 War | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 attacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | past | the Spanish | Nassau | 1720 | during the War of the Quadruple Alliance | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nassau=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «The Bahamas», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/The_Bahamas/55/