The Bahamas, sentence 67
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 Slave Trade Act 1807 abolished slave trading to British possessions, including the Bahamas.
Who acts: Trade Act · What happens: abolish · To what, where: slave trading
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 (Trade Act), 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 | 4 Act | det |
| 2 | Slave | Slave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Trade | compound |
| 3 | Trade | Trade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Act | compound |
| 4 | Act | Act | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 abolished | nsubj |
| 5 | 1807 | 1807 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Act | flat |
| 6 | abolished | abolish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trading | compound |
| 8 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 abolished | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 possessions | case |
| 10 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 possessions | amod |
| 11 | possessions | possession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 abolished | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Bahamas | punct |
| 13 | including | including | ADP | _ | 15 Bahamas | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Bahamas | det |
| 15 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 abolished | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 abolished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abolish | past | the Trade Act | slave trading | to British possessions; including the Bahamas | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trading=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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