The Bahamas, sentence 75

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.

In 1818 the Home Office ruled that "any slave brought to the Bahamas from outside the British West Indies would be manumitted."

Who acts: Home Office · What happens: rule, bring, manumit · To what, where: 1818, slave, British West Indies

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 (Home Office), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1818	case
2	1818	1818	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 ruled	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Office	det
4	Home	Home	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Office	compound
5	Office	Office	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ruled	nsubj
6	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 manumitted	mark
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 manumitted	punct
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 slave	det
10	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 manumitted	nsubj:pass
11	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 slave	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Bahamas	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Bahamas	det
14	Bahamas	Bahamas	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 brought	obl:agent
15	from	from	ADP	_	20 Indies	case
16	outside	outside	ADP	_	20 Indies	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Indies	det
18	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Indies	amod
19	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Indies	compound
20	Indies	indy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 brought	obl
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 manumitted	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 manumitted	aux:pass
23	manumitted	manumit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ruled	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ruled	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 ruled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	rule	past	the Home Office		1818	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	bring in a quote	participle		any slave not said here	the British West Indies	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from indy=Initial_Location
3	manumit in a quote	would · passive		any slave		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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