The Bahamas, sentence 99

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 couple visited the "Out Islands" that November, on Axel Wenner-Gren's yacht, which caused controversy; the British Foreign Office strenuously objected because they had been advised by United States intelligence that Wenner-Gren was a close friend of the Luftwaffe commander Hermann Göring of Nazi Germany.

Who acts: couple, Out Islands, November yacht, British Foreign Office, States intelligence, Wenner · What happens: visit, yacht, cause, object, advise, be · To what, where: Out Islands, controversy, islands, close friend

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 (couple, Out Islands, November yacht, British Foreign Office), 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	2 couple	det
2	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 visited	nsubj
3	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Islands	det
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Islands	punct
6	Out	Out	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Islands	compound
7	Islands	Island	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 visited	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Islands	punct
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 yacht	nsubj
10	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 yacht	compound
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Axel	punct
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 Axel	case
13	Axel	Axel	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 November	nmod
14	Wenner	Wenner	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Axel	flat
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Gren	punct
16	Gren	Gren	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Axel	flat
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Gren	case
18	yacht	yacht	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Islands	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 caused	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 caused	nsubj
21	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 yacht	acl:relcl
22	controversy	controversy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 caused	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 objected	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Office	det
25	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Office	amod
26	Foreign	Foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Office	amod
27	Office	Office	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 objected	nsubj
28	strenuously	strenuously	ADV	_	29 objected	advmod
29	objected	object	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 visited	conj
30	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 advised	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 advised	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 advised	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 advised	aux:pass
34	advised	advise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 objected	advcl
35	by	by	ADP	_	38 intelligence	case
36	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 States	amod
37	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	38 intelligence	compound
38	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 advised	obl:agent
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 friend	mark
40	Wenner	Wenner	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 friend	nsubj
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 Wenner	punct
42	Gren	Gren	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Wenner	flat
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 friend	cop
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 friend	det
45	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 friend	amod
46	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 intelligence	advcl
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 commander	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 commander	det
49	Luftwaffe	Luftwaffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 commander	compound
50	commander	commander	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 friend	nmod
51	Hermann	Hermann	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Göring	compound
52	Göring	Göring	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 commander	appos
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 Germany	case
54	Nazi	Nazi	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 Germany	compound
55	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Göring	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 visited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	visit	past	the couple	the Out Islands		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Co-Agent
2	yacht		the Out Islands			tree rules
3	cause	past	November yacht	controversy		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition controversy=Patient
4	object speech: other	past	the British Foreign Office		strenuously property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	advise speech: other	past · perfect · passive	States intelligence	islands = island		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
6	is a	past	Wenner	a close friend	of the Luftwaffe commander	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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