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title: Rogers cleaned up Nassau and rebuilt the fort, using his own wealth… — Nassau, Bahamas · tree and pragmatics
description: Rogers cleaned up Nassau and rebuilt the fort, using his own wealth to try to overcome problems. Who acts: Rogers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nassau, Bahamas» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nassau, Bahamas, sentence 38

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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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Rogers cleaned up Nassau and rebuilt the fort, using his own wealth to try to overcome problems.

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**Who acts:** Rogers · **What happens:** clean up, rebuild, use, try, overcome · **To what, where:** Nassau, fort, own wealth, problems

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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 (Rogers), 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:38
# text = Rogers cleaned up Nassau and rebuilt the fort, using his own wealth to try to overcome problems.
1	Rogers	roger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	Nassau	Nassau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	rebuilt	rebuild	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fort	fort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean up** | past | Rogers | Nassau |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nassau=Patient |
| 2 | **rebuild** | past | Rogers *not said here* | the fort |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fort=Result |
| 3 | **use** | gerund | Rogers *not said here* | Nassau's own wealth |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Patient |
| 4 | **try** | to-infinitive | Rogers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **overcome** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Rogers *not said here* | problems |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot problem=Theme |

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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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