The Bahamas, sentence 56
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 1729 a local assembly was established giving a degree of self-governance for British settlers.
What happens: establish, give · To what, where: local assembly, 1729, degree
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1729 | case |
| 2 | 1729 | 1729 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 established | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 assembly | det |
| 4 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 assembly | amod |
| 5 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 established | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 established | aux:pass |
| 7 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 established | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 degree | det |
| 10 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 giving | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 governance | case |
| 12 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 governance | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 self | punct |
| 14 | governance | governance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 degree | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 settlers | case |
| 16 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 settlers | amod |
| 17 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 giving | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past · passive | a local assembly | 1729 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | gerund | a degree of self governance | for British settlers | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent degree=Theme for settler=Asset |
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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