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# Nassau, Bahamas, sentence 133

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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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Participants spend all year preparing their handmade costumes by using coloured crepe paper and cardboard.

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**Who acts:** Participants · **What happens:** spend, prepare, use · **To what, where:** handmade costumes, coloured crepe paper

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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 (Participants), 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:133
# text = Participants spend all year preparing their handmade costumes by using coloured crepe paper and cardboard.
1	Participants	participant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spend	spend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	handmade	handmade	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	costumes	costume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	crepe	crepe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	cardboard	cardboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | present | Participants |  |  |  | year |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **prepare** | gerund | Participants *not said here* | Participants's handmade costumes |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent costume=Patient |
| 3 | **use** | gerund | Participants *not said here* | coloured crepe paper and cardboard |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Patient |

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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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