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description: Transportation and shipping around the Family Islands is primarily through mailboats based at Potters Cay. Who acts: Transportation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nassau, Bahamas» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nassau, Bahamas, sentence 103

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From Wikipedia, [«Nassau, Bahamas»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassau,_Bahamas), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Transportation and shipping around the Family Islands is primarily through mailboats based at Potters Cay.

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**Who acts:** Transportation · **What happens:** be, base · **To what, where:** mailboats, Potters Cay

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nassau, Bahamas». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Transportation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:Nassau,_Bahamas:103
# text = Transportation and shipping around the Family Islands is primarily through mailboats based at Potters Cay.
1	Transportation	transportation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	shipping	shipping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Family	Family	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	mailboats	mailboat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Potters	Potter	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	compound	_	_
15	Cay	Cay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Transportation and shipping around the Family Islands |  |  | mailboats |  | primarily *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **base** | participle |  | mailboats *not said here* |  | Potters Cay |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Nassau, 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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