The Bahamas, sentence 308
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 practice of obeah is illegal in the Bahamas and punishable in law.
Who acts: practice · What happens: be, practice · To what, where: Bahamas, law, obeah
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 (practice), 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 practice | det |
| 2 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 illegal | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 obeah | case |
| 4 | obeah | obeah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 practice | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 illegal | cop |
| 6 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Bahamas | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Bahamas | det |
| 9 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 illegal | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 punishable | cc |
| 11 | punishable | punishable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 illegal | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 law | case |
| 13 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 punishable | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 illegal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the practice of obeah | the Bahamas | illegal property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | the practice of obeah not said here | law | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | practice | obeah | nom practice «act transitive»: 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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