The Bahamas, sentence 91
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.
During the American Civil War of the 1860s, the islands briefly prospered as a focus for blockade runners aiding the Confederate States.
Who acts: islands, blockade runners · What happens: prosper, aid · To what, where: Confederate States
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 (islands, blockade runners), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 5 War | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 War | det |
| 3 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 War | amod |
| 4 | Civil | Civil | PROPN | _ | 5 War | flat |
| 5 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 prospered | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 1860s | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 1860s | det |
| 8 | 1860s | 1860 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 5 War | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 War | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 islands | det |
| 11 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 prospered | nsubj |
| 12 | briefly | briefly | ADV | _ | 13 prospered | advmod |
| 13 | prospered | prosper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 focus | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 focus | det |
| 16 | focus | focus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prospered | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 runners | case |
| 18 | blockade | blockade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 runners | compound |
| 19 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 focus | nmod |
| 20 | aiding | aid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 runners | acl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 States | det |
| 22 | Confederate | Confederate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 States | compound |
| 23 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 aiding | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 prospered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prosper | past | the islands | during the American Civil War of the 1860s | as a focus for blockade runners; briefly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | aid | gerund | blockade runners not said here | the Confederate States | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Beneficiary |
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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