--- title: An alternative theory concerning Bahrain's toponymy is offered by th… — Bahrain · tree and pragmatics description: An alternative theory concerning Bahrain's toponymy is offered by the al-Ahsa region, which suggests that the two seas were the "Great Green Ocean" (the Persian Gulf) and Al-Asfar Lake on the Arabian mainland. Who acts: alternative theory, al region, two seas. 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An alternative theory concerning Bahrain's toponymy is offered by the al-Ahsa region, which suggests that the two seas were the "Great Green Ocean" (the Persian Gulf) and Al-Asfar Lake on the Arabian mainland. **Who acts:** alternative theory, al region, two seas · **What happens:** concern, offer, suggest, be · **To what, where:** toponymy, alternative theory, Great Green Ocean · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bahrain». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (alternative theory, al region, two seas), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Bahrain:32 # text = An alternative theory concerning Bahrain's toponymy is offered by the al-Ahsa region, which suggests that the two seas were the "Great Green Ocean" (the Persian Gulf) and Al-Asfar Lake on the Arabian mainland. 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 alternative alternative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 theory theory NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 concerning concern VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 Bahrain Bahrain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 toponymy toponymy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 offered offer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 al Al PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Ahsa Ahsa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 15 region region NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 suggests suggest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 Green Green PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Ocean Ocean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 Persian Persian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Gulf Gulf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 Al Al PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 Asfar Asfar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 Lake Lake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 Arabian Arabian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 mainland mainland NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **concern** | gerund | a alternative theory *not said here* | Bahrain's toponymy | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus toponymy=Experiencer | | 2 | **offer** | present · passive | the al region | a alternative theory | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | the al region | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the two seas | the Great Green Ocean and the Persian Gulf on the Arabian mainland and Al and Asfar Lake | | | | the Persian Gulf on the Arabian mainland and Al and Asfar Lake *conj* | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Bahrain», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bahrain/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bahrain/33/) - ↑ back to [Bahrain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bahrain/)