The Bahamas, sentence 9

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 Bahamas became a crown colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1718 when the British clamped down on piracy.

Who acts: Bahamas, British · What happens: become, clamp down · To what, where: crown colony, 1718

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 (Bahamas, British), 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	2 Bahamas	det
2	Bahamas	Bahamas	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 colony	det
5	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colony	compound
6	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Kingdom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Kingdom	det
9	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 colony	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Britain	case
11	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Britain	flat
12	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Kingdom	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 1718	case
14	1718	1718	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 became	obl
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 clamped	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 British	det
17	British	British	PROPN	_	18 clamped	nsubj
18	clamped	clamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	advcl
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 clamped	compound:prt
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 piracy	case
21	piracy	piracy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 clamped	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the Bahamas	a crown colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain				in 1718 result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1718=Result
2	clamp down	past	the British					on piracy	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on piracy=Co-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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