The Bahamas, sentence 94
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.
In August 1940 the Duke of Windsor (formerly King Edward VIII) was appointed Governor of the Bahamas.
What happens: appoint · To what, where: Duke
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 August | case |
| 2 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 appointed | obl |
| 3 | 1940 | 1940 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 August | flat |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Duke | det |
| 5 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Windsor | case |
| 7 | Windsor | Windsor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Duke | nmod |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 Edward | punct |
| 9 | formerly | formerly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Edward | amod |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Edward | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Edward | Edward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Duke | appos |
| 12 | VIII | VIII | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 11 Edward | flat |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 Edward | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 appointed | aux:pass |
| 15 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 appointed | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Bahamas | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Bahamas | det |
| 19 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 Governor | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past · passive | the Duke of Windsor | august | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme governor=Attribute |
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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