The Bahamas, sentence 76
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.
This led to a total of nearly 300 enslaved people owned by US nationals being freed from 1830 to 1835.
Who acts: This · What happens: lead, enslave, own, free · To what, where: 300 enslaved people, US nationals, 1830
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 total | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 total | det |
| 5 | total | total | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 7 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 8 300 | advmod |
| 8 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 people | nummod |
| 9 | enslaved | enslave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 total | nmod |
| 11 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 people | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 nationals | case |
| 13 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 nationals | compound |
| 14 | nationals | national | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 owned | obl:agent |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 freed | aux:pass |
| 16 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 nationals | acl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 1830 | case |
| 18 | 1830 | 1830 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 freed | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 1835 | case |
| 20 | 1835 | 1835 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 1830 | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | This | to a total of 300 enslaved people | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to total=Patient | ||||
| 2 | enslave | participle | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | own | participle | 300 enslaved people not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | free | gerund · passive | US nationals not said here | 1830 to 1835 | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING» |
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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