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title: The largest concentration of Africans historically lived in the "Ove… — Nassau, Bahamas · tree and pragmatics
description: The largest concentration of Africans historically lived in the "Over-the-Hill" suburbs of Grants Town and Bain Town to the south of the city of Nassau, while most of the inhabitants of European descent lived on the island's northern coastal ridges. Who acts: largest concentration, most. A sentence 
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# Nassau, Bahamas, sentence 17

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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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The largest concentration of Africans historically lived in the "Over-the-Hill" suburbs of Grants Town and Bain Town to the south of the city of Nassau, while most of the inhabitants of European descent lived on the island's northern coastal ridges.

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**Who acts:** largest concentration, most · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** Over-the-Hill suburbs, northern coastal ridges

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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 (largest concentration, most), 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:17
# text = The largest concentration of Africans historically lived in the "Over-the-Hill" suburbs of Grants Town and Bain Town to the south of the city of Nassau, while most of the inhabitants of European descent lived on the island's northern coastal ridges.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	concentration	concentration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Africans	African	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	historically	historically	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Over-the-Hill	Over-the-Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Grants	Grant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	compound	_	_
16	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Bain	Bain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Nassau	Nassau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
30	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	37	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	ridges	ridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the largest concentration of Africans |  |  | the Over-the-Hill suburbs of Grants Town and Bain Town |  | to the south of the city of Nassau; historically *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in suburb=Location |
| 2 | **live** | past | most of the inhabitants of European descent |  |  | the island's northern coastal ridges |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ridge=Location |

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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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