The Bahamas, sentence 84
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.
It was carrying 135 slaves from Virginia destined for sale in New Orleans.
Who acts: Creole, 135 slaves · What happens: carry, destine
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 (Creole, 135 slaves), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carrying | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carrying | aux |
| 3 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | 135 | 135 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 slaves | nummod |
| 5 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 destined | nsubj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Virginia | case |
| 7 | Virginia | Virginia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 slaves | nmod |
| 8 | destined | destine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carrying | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 sale | case |
| 10 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 destined | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Orleans | case |
| 12 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Orleans | amod |
| 13 | Orleans | Orleans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sale | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carrying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · progressive | Creole | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | destine | past | 135 slaves from Virginia | for sale in New Orleans | 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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