The Bahamas, sentence 77
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.
The American slave ships Comet and Encomium used in the United States domestic coastwise slave trade, were wrecked off Abaco Island in December 1830 and February 1834, respectively.
What happens: use, wreck off · To what, where: Comet, domestic coastwise slave trade, American slave ships
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ships | det |
| 2 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ships | amod |
| 3 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ships | compound |
| 4 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wrecked | nsubj |
| 5 | Comet | Comet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ships | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Encomium | cc |
| 7 | Encomium | Encomium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Comet | conj |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Comet | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 trade | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trade | det |
| 11 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 States | amod |
| 12 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 trade | nsubj |
| 13 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 trade | amod |
| 14 | coastwise | coastwise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 trade | amod |
| 15 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trade | compound |
| 16 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 used | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ships | punct |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wrecked | aux:pass |
| 19 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 wrecked | compound:prt |
| 21 | Abaco | Abaco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Island | compound |
| 22 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 wrecked | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 December | case |
| 24 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 wrecked | obl |
| 25 | 1830 | 1830 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 December | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 February | cc |
| 27 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 December | conj |
| 28 | 1834 | 1834 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 February | nmod:unmarked |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 respectively | punct |
| 30 | respectively | respectively | ADV | _ | 19 wrecked | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 wrecked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | Comet and Encomium not said here | the domestic coastwise slave trade | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wreck off | past · passive | the American slave ships | december | respectively property | 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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