The Bahamas, sentence 85
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 Bahamian officials freed the 128 slaves who chose to stay in the islands.
Who acts: Bahamian officials, 128 slaves · What happens: free, choose, stay · To what, where: 128 slaves, islands
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 (Bahamian officials, 128 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 officials | det |
| 2 | Bahamian | bahamian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 officials | amod |
| 3 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 freed | nsubj |
| 4 | freed | free | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 slaves | det |
| 6 | 128 | 128 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 slaves | nummod |
| 7 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 freed | obj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 chose | nsubj |
| 9 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 slaves | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 stay | mark |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 chose | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 islands | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 islands | det |
| 14 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stay | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 freed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | free | past | the Bahamian officials | the 128 slaves | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer slave=Source | ||||
| 2 | choose | past | the 128 slaves | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stay | to-infinitive | the 128 slaves not said here | the islands | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in island=Location |
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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