The Bahamas, sentence 88
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.
They had been co-operating in patrols to suppress the international slave trade.
Who acts: nationals · What happens: co-operate, suppress · To what, where: patrols, international slave trade
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 (nationals), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 co-operating | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 co-operating | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 co-operating | aux |
| 4 | co-operating | co-operate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 patrols | case |
| 6 | patrols | patrol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 co-operating | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 suppress | mark |
| 8 | suppress | suppress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 co-operating | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trade | det |
| 10 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 trade | amod |
| 11 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trade | compound |
| 12 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 suppress | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 co-operating | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | co-operate | past · perfect · progressive | nationals = national | patrols | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suppress | to-infinitive | nationals = national not said here | the international slave trade | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=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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