The Bahamas, sentence 87

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.

These incidents, in which a total of 447 enslaved people belonging to US nationals were freed from 1830 to 1842, increased tension between the United States and the United Kingdom.

Who acts: 447 enslaved people · What happens: enslave, belong, free, increase · To what, where: US nationals, 1830

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 (447 enslaved people), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 incidents	det
2	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 which	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 incidents	nmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 total	det
7	total	total	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 which	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 people	case
9	447	447	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 people	nummod
10	enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 total	nmod
12	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 people	acl
13	to	to	SCONJ	_	17 freed	mark
14	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 nationals	compound
15	nationals	national	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 freed	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 freed	aux:pass
17	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 belonging	advcl
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 1830	case
19	1830	1830	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 freed	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 1842	case
21	1842	1842	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 1830	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tension	punct
23	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 tension	amod
24	tension	tension	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 freed	obl
25	between	between	ADP	_	28 States	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 States	det
27	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 States	amod
28	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 tension	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 Kingdom	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Kingdom	det
31	United	United	PROPN	_	32 Kingdom	flat
32	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 States	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 incidents	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enslave	participle					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	belong	gerund	447 enslaved people not said here				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	free	past · passive		US nationals	1830 to 1842	increased tension between the United States and the United Kingdom obl	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
4	increase	participle					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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