The Bahamas, sentence 97
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.
He did not enjoy the position, and referred to the islands as "a third-class British colony".
Who acts: House · What happens: not enjoy, refer · To what, where: position
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 (House), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 enjoy | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 enjoy | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 enjoy | advmod |
| 4 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 position | det |
| 6 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enjoy | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 referred | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 referred | cc |
| 9 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 enjoy | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 islands | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 islands | det |
| 12 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 referred | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 colony | mark |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 colony | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 colony | det |
| 16 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 class | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 third | punct |
| 18 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 colony | compound |
| 19 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 colony | amod |
| 20 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 referred | advcl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 colony | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 enjoy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not enjoy | past · do-support | House | the position | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer position=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | refer | participle | to the islands | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to island=Co-Theme |
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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