The Bahamas, sentence 58

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 the American War of Independence in the late 18th century, the islands became a target for US naval forces.

Who acts: islands · What happens: become · To what, where: target

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 (islands), 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	_	4 War	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 War	det
3	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 War	amod
4	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 became	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Independence	case
6	Independence	Independence	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 War	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 century	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 century	det
9	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 century	amod
10	18th	18th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	11 century	amod
11	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Independence	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 War	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 islands	det
14	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 became	nsubj
15	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 target	det
17	target	target	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 became	xcomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 forces	case
19	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 forces	compound
20	naval	naval	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 forces	amod
21	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 target	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the islands	a target for US naval forces			during the American War of Independence in the late 18th century		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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