Nassau, Bahamas, sentence 132
From Wikipedia, «Nassau, 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 celebration occurs on 26 December, 10 July and 1 January, beginning in the early hours of the morning (1:00 a.m.) and ending around 10 a.m. At the end of the Junkanoo procession, judges award cash prizes for the best music, costumes, and overall group presentation.
Who acts: celebration, judges · What happens: occur, begin, end, award · To what, where: 26, 10 a.m., end, cash prizes
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nassau, Bahamas». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (celebration, judges), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 celebration | det |
| 2 | celebration | celebration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 occurs | nsubj |
| 3 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 26 | case |
| 5 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 occurs | obl |
| 6 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 26 | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 26 | punct |
| 8 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 July | nummod |
| 9 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 26 | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 January | cc |
| 11 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 January | nummod |
| 12 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 July | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beginning | punct |
| 14 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 occurs | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hours | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hours | det |
| 17 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hours | amod |
| 18 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 beginning | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 morning | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 morning | det |
| 21 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hours | nmod |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 1:00 | punct |
| 23 | 1:00 | 1:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 morning | appos |
| 24 | a.m. | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 1:00 | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 1:00 | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ending | cc |
| 27 | ending | end | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 beginning | conj |
| 28 | around | around | ADV | _ | 29 10 | advmod |
| 29 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 a.m. | nummod |
| 30 | a.m. | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ending | obj |
| 31 | At | at | ADP | _ | 33 end | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 end | det |
| 33 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ending | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 procession | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 procession | det |
| 36 | Junkanoo | Junkanoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 procession | compound |
| 37 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 end | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 award | punct |
| 39 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 award | nsubj |
| 40 | award | award | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 occurs | conj |
| 41 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 prizes | compound |
| 42 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 award | obj |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 music | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 music | det |
| 45 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 46 music | amod |
| 46 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 award | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 costumes | punct |
| 48 | costumes | costume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 music | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 presentation | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 presentation | cc |
| 51 | overall | overall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 group | amod |
| 52 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 presentation | compound |
| 53 | presentation | presentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 award | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | present | the celebration | 26 December | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on 26=Location | ||||
| 2 | begin | gerund | the celebration not said here | hour | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | end | gerund | the celebration not said here | 10 a.m. | at the end of the Junkanoo procession | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality a.m.=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | award | present | judges | cash prizes | for the best music and costumes goal; group presentation obl | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent prize=Theme for music=Goal |
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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