--- title: Other pirates of note that spent time in Nassau included Charles Van… — Nassau, Bahamas · tree and pragmatics description: Other pirates of note that spent time in Nassau included Charles Vane, Thomas Barrow (who declared himself "Governor of New Providence"), John Rackham, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and the infamous Edward Teach, better known as "Blackbeard". Who acts: note, Other pirates, Thomas Barrow, Governor. 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Other pirates of note that spent time in Nassau included Charles Vane, Thomas Barrow (who declared himself "Governor of New Providence"), John Rackham, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and the infamous Edward Teach, better known as "Blackbeard". **Who acts:** note, Other pirates, Thomas Barrow, Governor · **What happens:** spend, include, declare, read, know · **To what, where:** Nassau, Charles, infamous Edward Teach 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 (note, Other pirates, Thomas Barrow, Governor), 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:Nassau,_Bahamas:35 # text = Other pirates of note that spent time in Nassau included Charles Vane, Thomas Barrow (who declared himself "Governor of New Providence"), John Rackham, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and the infamous Edward Teach, better known as "Blackbeard". 1 Other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 pirates pirate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Nassau Nassau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 included include VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 Charles Charles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 Vane Vane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 Thomas Thomas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Barrow Barrow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 obj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Governor Governor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Providence Providence PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 29 Rackham Rackham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 Anne Anne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 32 Bonny Bonny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 Mary Mary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 35 Read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 infamous infamous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 Edward Edward PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 Teach teach NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 44 advmod _ _ 44 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl _ _ 45 as as ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 " " PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 Blackbeard Blackbeard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | past | note | | | Nassau | time | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **include** | past | Other pirates of note | Charles and Thomas Barrow | | | | the infamous Edward Teach *parataxis* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charles=Theme | | 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Thomas Barrow | Charles | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute | | 4 | **read** | infinitive | Governor of New Providence and John and Anne and Mary | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **know** | participle | | the infamous Edward Teach *not said here* | | | | as Blackbeard; well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as blackbeard=Attribute | 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nassau,_Bahamas/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nassau,_Bahamas/36/) - ↑ back to [Nassau, Bahamas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nassau,_Bahamas/)