The Bahamas, sentence 59
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.
Under the command of Commodore Esek Hopkins, US Marines, the US Navy occupied Nassau in 1776, before being evacuated a single day later.
Who acts: US Navy · What happens: occupy, evacuate, command · To what, where: Nassau, command, Commodore Esek · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (US Navy), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 command | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 command | det |
| 3 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 occupied | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Esek | case |
| 5 | Commodore | Commodore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Esek | compound |
| 6 | Esek | Esek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 command | nmod |
| 7 | Hopkins | Hopkins | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Esek | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Marines | punct |
| 9 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Marines | compound |
| 10 | Marines | Marine | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 Esek | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 command | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Navy | det |
| 13 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Navy | compound |
| 14 | Navy | Navy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 occupied | nsubj |
| 15 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Nassau | Nassau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 occupied | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1776 | case |
| 18 | 1776 | 1776 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 occupied | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 evacuated | punct |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 evacuated | mark |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 evacuated | aux:pass |
| 22 | evacuated | evacuate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 occupied | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 24 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 evacuated | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 evacuated | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 occupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | past | the US Navy | Nassau | the command of Commodore Esek and US Marines | in 1776 | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nassau=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | evacuate | gerund · passive | the US Navy not said here | day | late property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP» | |||
| 3 | command | Commodore Esek and US Marines | nom command «communication transitive»: of=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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