The Bahamas, sentence 84
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.
It was carrying 135 slaves from Virginia destined for sale in New Orleans.
Who acts: Creole, 135 slaves · What happens: carry, destine
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 (Creole, 135 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carrying | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carrying | aux |
| 3 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | 135 | 135 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 slaves | nummod |
| 5 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 destined | nsubj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Virginia | case |
| 7 | Virginia | Virginia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 slaves | nmod |
| 8 | destined | destine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carrying | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 sale | case |
| 10 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 destined | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Orleans | case |
| 12 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Orleans | amod |
| 13 | Orleans | Orleans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sale | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carrying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · progressive | Creole | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | destine | past | 135 slaves from Virginia | for sale in New Orleans | 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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