The Bahamas, sentence 44
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.
These English Puritans established the first permanent European settlement on an island which they named Eleuthera, Greek for free.
Who acts: English Puritans, Puritans · What happens: establish, name · To what, where: first permanent European settlement, island
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 (English Puritans, Puritans), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 Puritans | det |
| 2 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Puritans | amod |
| 3 | Puritans | Puritan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 established | nsubj |
| 4 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 settlement | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 settlement | amod |
| 7 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 settlement | amod |
| 8 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 settlement | amod |
| 9 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 established | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 island | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 island | det |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 settlement | nmod |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 named | obj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 named | nsubj |
| 15 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 island | acl:relcl |
| 16 | Eleuthera | Eleuthera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 named | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Greek | punct |
| 18 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Eleuthera | amod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 free | case |
| 20 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Greek | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past | this English Puritans | the first permanent European settlement | a island | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent settlement=Theme on island=Source | |||
| 2 | name | past | Puritans = puritan | a island | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
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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