The Bahamas, sentence 68

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 United Kingdom pressured other slave-trading countries to also abolish slave-trading, and gave the Royal Navy the right to intercept ships carrying slaves on the high seas.

Who acts: United Kingdom, ships · What happens: pressure, give, intercept, carry · To what, where: other trading countries, right, Royal Navy, ships, slaves, high seas

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 (United Kingdom, ships), 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	3 Kingdom	det
2	United	United	PROPN	_	3 Kingdom	flat
3	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pressured	nsubj
4	pressured	pressure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 countries	amod
6	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trading	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 slave	punct
8	trading	trading	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 countries	compound
9	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pressured	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	15 trading	mark
11	also	also	ADV	_	15 trading	advmod
12	abolish	abolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 trading	amod
13	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 trading	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 slave	punct
15	trading	trading	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pressured	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gave	cc
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pressured	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Navy	det
20	Royal	Royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Navy	amod
21	Navy	Navy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 gave	iobj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 right	det
23	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 intercept	mark
25	intercept	intercept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 right	acl
26	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 intercept	obj
27	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 ships	acl
28	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 carrying	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 seas	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 seas	det
31	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 seas	amod
32	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 carrying	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pressured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	pressure	past	the United Kingdom	other trading countries			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Recipient
2	give	past	the United Kingdom not said here	the right	the Royal Navy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent navy=Recipient right=Theme
3	intercept	to-infinitive	the United Kingdom not said here	ships			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme
4	carry	gerund	ships not said here	slaves		the high seas	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «The Bahamas», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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