The Bahamas, sentence 78

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.

When wreckers took the masters, passengers and slaves into Nassau, customs officers seized the slaves and British colonial officials freed them, over the protests of the Americans.

Who acts: wreckers, customs officers, slaves · What happens: take, seize, free, protest · To what, where: masters, Nassau, officers, protests, Americans

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 (wreckers, customs officers, slaves), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 took	advmod
2	wreckers	wrecker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seized	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 masters	det
5	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 passengers	punct
7	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 masters	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 slaves	cc
9	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 masters	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 Nassau	case
11	Nassau	Nassau	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
13	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 officers	compound
14	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 seized	nsubj
15	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 slaves	det
17	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 freed	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 officials	cc
19	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 officials	amod
20	colonial	colonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 officials	amod
21	officials	official	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 slaves	conj
22	freed	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seized	ccomp
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 freed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 protests	punct
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 protests	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 protests	det
27	protests	protest	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 freed	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Americans	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Americans	det
30	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 protests	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	past	wreckers	the masters and passengers and slaves	Nassau	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent master=Theme into nassau=Destination
2	seize	past	customs officers			tree rules
3	free	past	the slaves and British colonial officials	officers = officer	the protests of the Americans	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source
4	protest			the Americans		nom protest «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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