Nassau, Bahamas, sentence 17
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The largest concentration of Africans historically lived in the "Over-the-Hill" suburbs of Grants Town and Bain Town to the south of the city of Nassau, while most of the inhabitants of European descent lived on the island's northern coastal ridges.
Who acts: largest concentration, most · What happens: live · To what, where: Over-the-Hill suburbs, northern coastal ridges
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 (largest concentration, most), 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 | 3 concentration | det |
| 2 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 concentration | amod |
| 3 | concentration | concentration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Africans | case |
| 5 | Africans | African | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 concentration | nmod |
| 6 | historically | historically | ADV | _ | 7 lived | advmod |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 suburbs | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 suburbs | det |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Over-the-Hill | punct |
| 11 | Over-the-Hill | Over-the-Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 suburbs | compound |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Over-the-Hill | punct |
| 13 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lived | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Town | case |
| 15 | Grants | Grant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 Town | compound |
| 16 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 suburbs | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Town | cc |
| 18 | Bain | Bain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Town | compound |
| 19 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Town | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 south | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 south | det |
| 22 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 city | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 city | det |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 south | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Nassau | case |
| 27 | Nassau | Nassau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 city | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 lived | punct |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 37 lived | mark |
| 30 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 lived | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 inhabitants | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 inhabitants | det |
| 33 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 most | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 descent | case |
| 35 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 descent | amod |
| 36 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 inhabitants | nmod |
| 37 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lived | conj |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 ridges | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 island | det |
| 40 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 ridges | nmod:poss |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 island | case |
| 42 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 ridges | amod |
| 43 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 ridges | amod |
| 44 | ridges | ridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 lived | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the largest concentration of Africans | the Over-the-Hill suburbs of Grants Town and Bain Town | to the south of the city of Nassau; historically property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in suburb=Location | |||
| 2 | live | past | most of the inhabitants of European descent | the island's northern coastal ridges | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ridge=Location |
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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