The Bahamas, sentence 65
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.
These Loyalists, who included Deveaux and also Lord Dunmore, established plantations on several islands and became a political force in the capital.
Who acts: Loyalists · What happens: include, establish, become · To what, where: Deveaux, plantations, several islands, political force
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 (Loyalists), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 Loyalists | det |
| 2 | Loyalists | Loyalist | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 included | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 included | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 included | nsubj |
| 5 | included | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Deveaux | Deveaux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 included | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Lord | cc |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 Lord | advmod |
| 9 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Deveaux | conj |
| 10 | Dunmore | Dunmore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Lord | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 established | punct |
| 12 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 included | conj |
| 13 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 established | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 islands | case |
| 15 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 islands | amod |
| 16 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 established | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 became | cc |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 established | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 force | det |
| 20 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 force | amod |
| 21 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 became | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 capital | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 capital | det |
| 24 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 force | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 included | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | past | this Loyalists | Deveaux and Lord | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deveaux=Theme | ||||
| 2 | establish | past | this Loyalists not said here | plantations | several islands | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent plantation=Theme on island=Source | |||
| 3 | become | past | this Loyalists not said here | a political force in the capital | 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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