The Bahamas, sentence 37
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The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas theoretically divided the new territories between the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Portugal, placing the Bahamas in the Spanish sphere; however, they did little to press their claim on the ground.
Who acts: 1494 Treaty, Bahamas · What happens: divide, place, do, press, claim · To what, where: new territories, Bahamas, Spanish sphere, little, claim, ground
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 (1494 Treaty, Bahamas), 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 | 3 Treaty | det |
| 2 | 1494 | 1494 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Treaty | nummod |
| 3 | Treaty | Treaty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 divided | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Tordesillas | case |
| 5 | Tordesillas | Tordesillas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Treaty | nmod |
| 6 | theoretically | theoretically | ADV | _ | 7 divided | advmod |
| 7 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 territories | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 territories | amod |
| 10 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 divided | obj |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 Kingdom | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Kingdom | det |
| 13 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 territories | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Castile | case |
| 15 | Castile | Castile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Kingdom | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Kingdom | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Kingdom | det |
| 18 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Kingdom | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Portugal | case |
| 20 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Kingdom | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 placing | punct |
| 22 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 divided | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Bahamas | det |
| 24 | Bahamas | Bahamas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 placing | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 sphere | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sphere | det |
| 27 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sphere | amod |
| 28 | sphere | sphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placing | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 did | punct |
| 30 | however | however | ADV | _ | 33 did | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 however | punct |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 did | nsubj |
| 33 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 divided | conj |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 did | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 press | mark |
| 36 | press | press | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 did | advcl |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 claim | nmod:poss |
| 38 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 press | obj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 ground | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 ground | det |
| 41 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 claim | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past | the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas | the new territories | between the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Portugal; theoretically property | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Theme | |||
| 2 | place | gerund | the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas not said here | the Bahamas | the Spanish sphere | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bahamas=Theme in sphere=Destination | |||
| 3 | do | past | Bahamas | little | however property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | press | to-infinitive | Bahamas not said here | Bahamas's claim | the ground | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme | |||
| 5 | claim | Bahamas | the ground | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «The Bahamas», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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