The Bahamas, sentence 64
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.
The government granted land to the planters to help compensate for losses on the continent.
Who acts: government · What happens: grant, help, compensate · To what, where: land, planters, continent
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 (government), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 government | det |
| 2 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 granted | nsubj |
| 3 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 granted | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 planters | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 planters | det |
| 7 | planters | planter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 granted | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 help | mark |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 granted | advcl |
| 10 | compensate | compensate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 help | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 losses | case |
| 12 | losses | loss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 compensate | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 continent | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 continent | det |
| 15 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 compensate | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past | the government | land | to the planters goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent land=Theme to planter=Goal | |||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | the government not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | compensate | infinitive | the government not said here | the continent | for losses | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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