The Bahamas, sentence 90

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 United States worried that the success of the Creole slaves in gaining freedom would encourage more slave revolts on merchant ships.

Who acts: United States, success, freedom · What happens: worry, slave, gain, encourage · To what, where: more slave revolts

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, success, freedom), 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 States	det
2	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 States	amod
3	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 worried	nsubj
4	worried	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 slaves	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 success	det
7	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slaves	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Creole	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Creole	det
10	Creole	Creole	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 success	nmod
11	slaves	slave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worried	advcl
12	in	in	SCONJ	_	13 gaining	mark
13	gaining	gain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 slaves	advcl
14	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 encourage	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 encourage	aux
16	encourage	encourage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 gaining	ccomp
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 revolts	amod
18	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 revolts	compound
19	revolts	revolt	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 encourage	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 ships	case
21	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ships	compound
22	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 revolts	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	worry	past	the United States			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	slave	present	the success of the Creole			tree rules
3	gain	gerund	the success of the Creole not said here			tree rules
4	encourage	would	freedom	more slave revolts	on merchant ships	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent revolt=Recipient on ship=Topic

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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