The Bahamas, sentence 149
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.
Much of the natural vegetation is tropical scrub and cactus and succulents are common in landscapes.
Who acts: natural vegetation, Much · What happens: be · To what, where: landscapes
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 (natural vegetation, Much), 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 | Much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 common | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 scrub | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 vegetation | det |
| 4 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 vegetation | amod |
| 5 | vegetation | vegetation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scrub | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 scrub | cop |
| 7 | tropical | tropical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 scrub | amod |
| 8 | scrub | scrub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Much | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cactus | cc |
| 10 | cactus | cactus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scrub | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 succulents | cc |
| 12 | succulents | succulent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 scrub | conj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 common | cop |
| 14 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 landscapes | case |
| 16 | landscapes | landscape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 common | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 common | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the natural vegetation | of tropical scrub and cactus and succulents | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Much | landscapes | common property | 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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