The Bahamas, sentence 81
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.
Slavery was abolished in the British Empire on 1 August 1834.
What happens: abolish · To what, where: Slavery, British Empire
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.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 abolished | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 abolished | aux:pass |
| 3 | abolished | abolish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Empire | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Empire | det |
| 6 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Empire | amod |
| 7 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 abolished | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 August | case |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 August | nummod |
| 10 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 abolished | obl |
| 11 | 1834 | 1834 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 August | flat |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 abolished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abolish | past · passive | Slavery | the British Empire | august | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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