The Bahamas, sentence 102
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 was praised for his resolution of civil unrest over low wages in Nassau in June 1942, when there was a "full-scale riot".
Who acts: biography · What happens: praise, be, resolve · To what, where: biography, low wages, scale riot, civil unrest · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (biography), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 praised | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 praised | aux:pass |
| 3 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 resolution | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 resolution | nmod:poss |
| 6 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 praised | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 unrest | case |
| 8 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 unrest | amod |
| 9 | unrest | unrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 resolution | nmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 wages | case |
| 11 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wages | amod |
| 12 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 praised | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Nassau | case |
| 14 | Nassau | Nassau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wages | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 June | case |
| 16 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 riot | obl |
| 17 | 1942 | 1942 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 June | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 was | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 was | advmod |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 riot | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 riot | det |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 riot | punct |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 scale | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 full | punct |
| 26 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 riot | compound |
| 27 | riot | riot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 praised | parataxis |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 riot | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 praised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past · passive | biography | low wages in Nassau | for biography's resolution of civil unrest | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | a scale riot | june | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | resolve | biography | civil unrest | nom resolution «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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