The Bahamas, sentence 89

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.

However, worried about the stability of its large domestic slave trade and its value, the United States argued that the United Kingdom should not treat its domestic ships that came to its colonial ports under duress as part of the international trade.

Who acts: United States, United Kingdom, domestic ships, stability, trade · What happens: argue, not treat, come, trade, value · To what, where: domestic ships, colonial ports

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 (United States, United Kingdom, domestic ships, stability), 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	However	however	ADV	_	3 worried	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 argued	advcl
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 stability	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stability	det
6	stability	stability	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worried	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 trade	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 trade	nmod:poss
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trade	amod
10	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trade	amod
11	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trade	compound
12	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stability	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 value	cc
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 value	nmod:poss
15	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trade	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 argued	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 States	det
18	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 States	amod
19	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	20 argued	nsubj
20	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 treat	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Kingdom	det
23	United	United	PROPN	_	24 Kingdom	flat
24	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 treat	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 treat	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 treat	advmod
27	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 argued	advcl
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 ships	nmod:poss
29	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ships	amod
30	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 treat	obj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ships	acl:relcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 ports	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 ports	nmod:poss
35	colonial	colonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ports	amod
36	ports	port	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 came	obl
37	under	under	ADP	_	38 duress	case
38	duress	duress	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ports	nmod
39	as	as	ADP	_	40 part	case
40	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 trade	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 trade	det
43	international	international	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 trade	amod
44	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 part	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 argued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	the United States				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not treat	should	the United Kingdom	trade's domestic ships			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ship=Recipient
3	come	past	trade's domestic ships		trade's colonial ports under duress	as part of the international trade	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to port=Initial_Location
4	trade		stability				nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent
5	value		trade				nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «The Bahamas», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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