The Bahamas, sentence 72
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.
From eyewitness accounts, 300 escaped in a mass flight in 1823, aided by Bahamians in 27 sloops, with others using canoes for the journey.
Who acts: 300, others · What happens: escape, aid, use · To what, where: eyewitness accounts, 27 sloops, canoes
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 (300, others), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 accounts | case |
| 2 | eyewitness | eyewitness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accounts | compound |
| 3 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 escaped | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 accounts | punct |
| 5 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 escaped | nsubj |
| 6 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 flight | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 flight | det |
| 9 | mass | mass | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flight | amod |
| 10 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 escaped | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1823 | case |
| 12 | 1823 | 1823 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 escaped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 aided | punct |
| 14 | aided | aid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 escaped | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Bahamians | case |
| 16 | Bahamians | Bahamian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 aided | obl:agent |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sloops | case |
| 18 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 sloops | nummod |
| 19 | sloops | sloop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 aided | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 others | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 others | case |
| 22 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sloops | nmod |
| 23 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 others | acl |
| 24 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 using | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 journey | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 journey | det |
| 27 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 using | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past | 300 | eyewitness accounts | in a mass flight; in 1823 | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from account=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | aid | participle | 300 not said here | 27 sloops with others | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | use | gerund | others not said here | canoes | for the journey | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme for journey=Eventuality |
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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