The Bahamas, sentence 7
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.
Later, the Kingdom of Spain shipped the native Lucayans to Hispaniola and enslaved them there, leaving the Bahama islands mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648.
Who acts: Kingdom, Bahama islands · What happens: ship, enslave, leave, desert · To what, where: native Lucayans, Hispaniola, Lucayans, 1513
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 (Kingdom, Bahama islands), 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 shipped | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Later | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Kingdom | det |
| 4 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shipped | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Spain | case |
| 6 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Kingdom | nmod |
| 7 | shipped | ship | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lucayans | det |
| 9 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Lucayans | amod |
| 10 | Lucayans | Lucayan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 shipped | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Hispaniola | case |
| 12 | Hispaniola | Hispaniola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shipped | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 enslaved | cc |
| 14 | enslaved | enslave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shipped | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 enslaved | obj |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 enslaved | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 leaving | punct |
| 18 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 enslaved | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 islands | det |
| 20 | Bahama | Bahama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 islands | compound |
| 21 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 deserted | nsubj |
| 22 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 23 deserted | advmod |
| 23 | deserted | desert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 leaving | parataxis |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 1513 | case |
| 25 | 1513 | 1513 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 deserted | obl |
| 26 | until | until | ADP | _ | 27 1648 | case |
| 27 | 1648 | 1648 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 deserted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ship | past | the Kingdom of Spain | the native Lucayans | Hispaniola | late property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lucayan=Theme to hispaniola=Destination | ||
| 2 | enslave | past | the Kingdom of Spain not said here | Lucayans = lucayan | there | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 3 | leave | gerund | the Kingdom of Spain not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | desert | past | the Bahama islands | 1513 | until 1648 | mostly property | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from 1513=Destination |
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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