The Bahamas, sentence 71
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.
They settled mostly on northwest Andros Island, where they developed the village of Red Bays.
Who acts: hundreds · What happens: settle, develop · To what, where: village
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 (hundreds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 settled | nsubj |
| 2 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 2 settled | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Island | case |
| 5 | northwest | northwest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Island | compound |
| 6 | Andros | Andros | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Island | compound |
| 7 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 settled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 developed | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 developed | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 developed | nsubj |
| 11 | developed | develop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 settled | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 village | det |
| 13 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 developed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Bays | case |
| 15 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Bays | compound |
| 16 | Bays | Bay | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 village | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past | hundreds = hundred | on northwest Andros Island; mostly property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on island=Topic | ||||
| 2 | develop | past | hundreds = hundred | the village of Red Bays | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Product |
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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