Nassau, Bahamas, sentence 58
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 city's proximity to the United States (290 km east-southeast of Miami, Florida) has contributed to its popularity as a holiday resort, especially after the United States imposed a ban on travel to Cuba in 1963.
Who acts: 290 km, proximity, United States · What happens: southeast, contribute, impose · To what, where: popularity, ban, travel
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 (290 km, proximity, United States), 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 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proximity | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 city | case |
| 4 | proximity | proximity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 contributed | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 States | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 States | det |
| 7 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 States | amod |
| 8 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 proximity | nmod |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 southeast | punct |
| 10 | 290 | 290 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 km | nummod |
| 11 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 southeast | nsubj |
| 12 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 southeast | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 southeast | punct |
| 14 | southeast | southeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proximity | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Miami | case |
| 16 | Miami | Miami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 southeast | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Florida | punct |
| 18 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Miami | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 southeast | punct |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 contributed | aux |
| 21 | contributed | contribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 popularity | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 popularity | nmod:poss |
| 24 | popularity | popularity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 contributed | obl |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 resort | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 resort | det |
| 27 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 resort | compound |
| 28 | resort | resort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 contributed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 imposed | punct |
| 30 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 35 imposed | advmod |
| 31 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 35 imposed | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 States | det |
| 33 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 States | amod |
| 34 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 35 imposed | nsubj |
| 35 | imposed | impose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 contributed | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 ban | det |
| 37 | ban | ban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 imposed | obj |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 travel | case |
| 39 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ban | nmod |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 Cuba | case |
| 41 | Cuba | Cuba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 travel | nmod |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 1963 | case |
| 43 | 1963 | 1963 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 imposed | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 contributed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | southeast | 290 km | of Miami Florida | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | contribute | present · perfect | the city's proximity to the United States | proximity's popularity | as a holiday resort | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to popularity=Recipient | |||
| 3 | impose | past | the United States | a ban | travel to Cuba | in 1963; especially property | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ban=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Nassau, Bahamas», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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