The Bahamas, sentence 92

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 early decades of the 20th century were ones of hardship for many Bahamians, characterised by a stagnant economy and widespread poverty.

Who acts: early decades · What happens: be, characteris · To what, where: ones, many Bahamians

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 (early decades), 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 decades	det
2	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 decades	amod
3	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ones	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 century	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 century	det
6	20th	20th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	7 century	amod
7	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 decades	nmod
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ones	cop
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 hardship	case
11	hardship	hardship	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ones	nmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 Bahamians	case
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Bahamians	amod
14	Bahamians	Bahamian	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 ones	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 characterised	punct
16	characterised	characteris	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 Bahamians	acl
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 economy	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 economy	det
19	stagnant	stagnant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 economy	amod
20	economy	economy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 characterised	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 poverty	cc
22	widespread	widespread	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 poverty	amod
23	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 economy	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ones	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the early decades of the 20th century	ones				of hardship; for many Bahamians	tree rules
2	characteris	participle		many Bahamians not said here				by a stagnant economy and widespread poverty	tree rules

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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