The Bahamas, sentence 187
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.
The stratigraphy of the islands consists of the Middle Pleistocene Owl's Hole Formation, overlain by the Late Pleistocene Grotto Beach Formation, and then the Holocene Rice Bay Formation.
Who acts: stratigraphy · What happens: consist, overlie · To what, where: Hole Formation
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 (stratigraphy), 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 stratigraphy | det |
| 2 | stratigraphy | stratigraphy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consists | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 islands | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 islands | det |
| 5 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stratigraphy | nmod |
| 6 | consists | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Formation | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Owl | det |
| 9 | Middle | Middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Owl | amod |
| 10 | Pleistocene | Pleistocene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Owl | compound |
| 11 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Formation | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Owl | case |
| 13 | Hole | Hole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Formation | compound |
| 14 | Formation | formation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consists | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 overlain | punct |
| 16 | overlain | overlie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Formation | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 Formation | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Formation | det |
| 19 | Late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Pleistocene | amod |
| 20 | Pleistocene | Pleistocene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Beach | compound |
| 21 | Grotto | Grotto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Beach | compound |
| 22 | Beach | Beach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Formation | compound |
| 23 | Formation | formation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 overlain | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Formation | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Formation | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 Formation | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Formation | det |
| 28 | Holocene | Holocene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Bay | compound |
| 29 | Rice | Rice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Bay | compound |
| 30 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Formation | compound |
| 31 | Formation | formation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consists | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 consists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | present | the stratigraphy of the islands | of the Middle Pleistocene Owl's Hole Formation | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overlie | participle | the Middle Pleistocene Owl's Hole Formation not said here | by the Beach Formation | 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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