The Bahamas, sentence 74
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.
Some of their descendants in Red Bays continue African Seminole traditions in basket making and grave marking.
Who acts: Some, African Seminole traditions · What happens: continue, make · To what, where: African Seminole traditions, basket
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 (Some, African Seminole traditions), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 continue | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 descendants | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 descendants | nmod:poss |
| 4 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Bays | case |
| 6 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bays | compound |
| 7 | Bays | Bay | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 descendants | nmod |
| 8 | continue | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 traditions | amod |
| 10 | Seminole | seminole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 traditions | compound |
| 11 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 continue | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 basket | case |
| 13 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 traditions | nmod |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 traditions | acl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 marking | cc |
| 16 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 marking | amod |
| 17 | marking | marking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 continue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | present | Some | African Seminole traditions | basket | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tradition=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | African Seminole traditions not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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