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title: In 1782, Spain captured Nassau for the last time when Don Juan de Ca… — Nassau, Bahamas · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1782, Spain captured Nassau for the last time when Don Juan de Cagigal, governor-general of Cuba, attacked New Providence with 5,000 men. Who acts: Spain, Don. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nassau, Bahamas» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nassau, Bahamas, sentence 45

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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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In 1782, Spain captured Nassau for the last time when Don Juan de Cagigal, governor-general of Cuba, attacked New Providence with 5,000 men.

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**Who acts:** Spain, Don · **What happens:** capture, attack · **To what, where:** Nassau, 1782, New Providence

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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 (Spain, Don), 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:45
# text = In 1782, Spain captured Nassau for the last time when Don Juan de Cagigal, governor-general of Cuba, attacked New Providence with 5,000 men.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1782	1782	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	captured	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Nassau	Nassau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
12	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
13	Juan	Juan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
15	Cagigal	Cagigal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Cuba	Cuba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
23	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
24	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Providence	Providence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	5,000	5000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | past | Spain | Nassau |  | 1782 | time |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nassau=Theme |
| 2 | **attack** | past | Don | New Providence |  |  |  | with 5,000 men | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent providence=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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