--- title: The city's proximity to the United States (290 km east-southeast of… — Nassau, Bahamas · tree and pragmatics description: The city's proximity to the United States (290 km east-southeast of Miami, Florida) has contributed to its popularity as a holiday resort, especially after the United States imposed a ban on travel to Cuba in 1963. Who acts: 290 km, proximity, United States. 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The city's proximity to the United States (290 km east-southeast of Miami, Florida) has contributed to its popularity as a holiday resort, especially after the United States imposed a ban on travel to Cuba in 1963. **Who acts:** 290 km, proximity, United States · **What happens:** southeast, contribute, impose · **To what, where:** popularity, ban, travel 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 (290 km, proximity, United States), 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:58 # text = The city's proximity to the United States (290 km east-southeast of Miami, Florida) has contributed to its popularity as a holiday resort, especially after the United States imposed a ban on travel to Cuba in 1963. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 proximity proximity NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 United United ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 290 290 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 12 east east ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 southeast southeast NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Miami Miami PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 20 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 contributed contribute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 popularity popularity NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 resort resort NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 especially especially ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 31 after after SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 United United ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 imposed impose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 ban ban NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 travel travel NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Cuba Cuba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 1963 1963 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **southeast** | | 290 km | | | | | of Miami Florida | tree rules | | 2 | **contribute** | present · perfect | the city's proximity to the United States | | proximity's popularity | | | as a holiday resort | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to popularity=Recipient | | 3 | **impose** | past | the United States | a ban | | travel to Cuba | | in 1963; especially *property* | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ban=Theme | 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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nassau,_Bahamas/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nassau,_Bahamas/59/) - ↑ back to [Nassau, Bahamas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nassau,_Bahamas/)