The Bahamas, sentence 66
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.
European Americans were outnumbered by the African-American slaves they brought with them, and ethnic Europeans remained a minority in the territory.
Who acts: American slaves, Americans, ethnic Europeans · What happens: outnumber, bring, remain · To what, where: European Americans, American slaves, minority, territory
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 (American slaves, Americans, ethnic Europeans), 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 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Americans | amod |
| 2 | Americans | American | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 outnumbered | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 outnumbered | aux:pass |
| 4 | outnumbered | outnumber | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 slaves | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 slaves | det |
| 7 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 American | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 African | punct |
| 9 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 slaves | amod |
| 10 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 outnumbered | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 slaves | acl:relcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 remained | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 remained | cc |
| 17 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Europeans | amod |
| 18 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 remained | nsubj |
| 19 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 outnumbered | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 minority | det |
| 21 | minority | minority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remained | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 territory | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 territory | det |
| 24 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remained | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 outnumbered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | outnumber | past · passive | the American slaves | European Americans | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | Americans = american | the American slaves not said here | with slaves = slave | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent slave=Theme | |||
| 3 | remain | past | ethnic Europeans | a minority | the territory | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme minority=Attribute |
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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