The Bahamas, sentence 69
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.
Thousands of Africans liberated from slave ships by the Royal Navy were resettled in the Bahamas.
What happens: liberate, resettle · To what, where: Thousands, slave ships, Bahamas
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: 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 | Thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 resettled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Africans | case |
| 3 | Africans | African | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Thousands | nmod |
| 4 | liberated | liberate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Thousands | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 ships | case |
| 6 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ships | compound |
| 7 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 liberated | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Navy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Navy | det |
| 10 | Royal | Royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Navy | amod |
| 11 | Navy | Navy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 liberated | obl |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 resettled | aux:pass |
| 13 | resettled | resettle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Bahamas | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Bahamas | det |
| 16 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 resettled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 resettled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | liberate | participle | Thousands of Africans not said here | slave ships | by the Royal Navy | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from ship=Source | |||
| 2 | resettle | past · passive | Thousands of Africans | the Bahamas | tree rules |
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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