The Bahamas, sentence 281
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.
A small portion of the Euro-Bahamian population are Greek Bahamians, descended from Greek labourers who came to help develop the sponging industry in the 1900s.
Who acts: small portion, Greek labourers · What happens: be, descend, come, help, develop, sponge · To what, where: Greek Bahamians, Greek labourers, sponging industry, 1900s
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 (small portion, Greek labourers), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 portion | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 portion | amod |
| 3 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Bahamians | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 population | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 population | det |
| 6 | Euro | Euro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 population | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Euro | punct |
| 8 | Bahamian | bahamian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 population | amod |
| 9 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 portion | nmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Bahamians | cop |
| 11 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Bahamians | amod |
| 12 | Bahamians | Bahamian | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 descended | punct |
| 14 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Bahamians | acl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 labourers | case |
| 16 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 labourers | amod |
| 17 | labourers | labourer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 descended | obl |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 labourers | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 help | mark |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 came | xcomp |
| 22 | develop | develop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 help | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 industry | det |
| 24 | sponging | sponge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 industry | amod |
| 25 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 develop | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 1900s | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 1900s | det |
| 28 | 1900s | 1900 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 22 develop | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bahamians | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a small portion of the Euro Bahamian population | Greek Bahamians | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | descend | participle | Greek Bahamians not said here | Greek labourers | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from labourer=Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Greek labourers | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | Greek labourers not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | develop | infinitive | Greek labourers not said here | the sponging industry | the 1900s | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent industry=Product | |||
| 6 | sponge | gerund | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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