The Bahamas, sentence 6
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.
Christopher Columbus was the first European to see the islands, making his first landfall in the New World in 1492 when he landed on the island of San Salvador (which the Lucayans called Guanahaní).
Who acts: Christopher, Lucayans · What happens: be, see, make, land, call · To what, where: islands, first landfall, New World, island · 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 (Christopher, Lucayans), 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 | Christopher | Christopher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 European | nsubj |
| 2 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Christopher | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 European | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 European | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 European | amod |
| 6 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 European | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 islands | det |
| 10 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 making | punct |
| 12 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 see | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 landfall | nmod:poss |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 landfall | amod |
| 15 | landfall | landfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 making | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 World | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 World | det |
| 18 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 World | amod |
| 19 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 landfall | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 1492 | case |
| 21 | 1492 | 1492 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 making | obl |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 landed | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 landed | nsubj |
| 24 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 making | advcl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 island | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 island | det |
| 27 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 landed | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 San | case |
| 29 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 island | nmod |
| 30 | Salvador | Salvador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 San | flat |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 called | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 called | obj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Lucayans | det |
| 34 | Lucayans | Lucayan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 35 called | nsubj |
| 35 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 landed | conj |
| 36 | Guanahaní | Guanahaní | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 called | xcomp |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 called | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 European | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Christopher | european property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Christopher not said here | the islands | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Christopher not said here | Christopher's first landfall | the New World | in 1492 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset landfall=Product | ||
| 4 | land | past | Christopher | the island of San | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on island=Destination | ||||
| 5 | call | past | the Lucayans | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |
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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