The Bahamas, sentence 181
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.
Most islands have ridges ranging from 30 to 45 m, though Cat Island has a ridge 60 m in height.
Who acts: Most islands, ridges, Cat Island · What happens: have, range · To what, where: ridges, 30 m, ridge, height
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 (Most islands, ridges, Cat Island), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 islands | amod |
| 2 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ridges | ridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | ranging | range | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 ridges | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 m | case |
| 7 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 m | nummod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 45 | case |
| 9 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 30 | nmod |
| 10 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ranging | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 has | mark |
| 13 | Cat | Cat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Island | compound |
| 14 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 has | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ridge | det |
| 17 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | obj |
| 18 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 m | nummod |
| 19 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ridge | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 height | case |
| 21 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ridge | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Most islands | ridges | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ridge=Patient | ||||
| 2 | range | gerund | ridges not said here | 30 m | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from m=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | present | Cat Island | a ridge 60 m | height | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ridge=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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