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title: New Providence provides 200 km2 of relatively flat and low-lying lan… — Nassau, Bahamas · tree and pragmatics
description: New Providence provides 200 km2 of relatively flat and low-lying land intersected by low ridges (none of which restricted settlement). Who acts: New Providence. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nassau, Bahamas» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nassau, Bahamas, sentence 56

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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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New Providence provides 200 km2 of relatively flat and low-lying land intersected by low ridges (none of which restricted settlement).

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**Who acts:** New Providence · **What happens:** provide, lie, intersect, restrict · **To what, where:** 200 km2, low lying land, settlement

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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 (New Providence), 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:56
# text = New Providence provides 200 km2 of relatively flat and low-lying land intersected by low ridges (none of which restricted settlement).
1	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Providence	Providence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	provides	provide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	relatively	relatively	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	intersected	intersect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ridges	ridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	17	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	restricted	restrict	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | present | New Providence | 200 km2 of flat and low lying land |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **intersect** | participle |  | low lying land *not said here* |  |  |  | by low ridges | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **restrict** | past |  | settlement |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer settlement=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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