The Bahamas, sentence 60
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 1782, a Spanish fleet appeared off the coast of Nassau, and the city surrendered without a fight.
Who acts: Spanish fleet, city · What happens: appear, surrender · To what, where: 1782
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 fleet, city), 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 1782 | case |
| 2 | 1782 | 1782 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 appeared | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1782 | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fleet | det |
| 5 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fleet | amod |
| 6 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 coast | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 coast | det |
| 10 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Nassau | case |
| 12 | Nassau | Nassau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 coast | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 surrendered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 surrendered | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 city | det |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 surrendered | nsubj |
| 17 | surrendered | surrender | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 appeared | conj |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 fight | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fight | det |
| 20 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 surrendered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a Spanish fleet | 1782 | off the coast of Nassau | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1782=Location | |||
| 2 | surrender | past | the city | without a fight | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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