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title: He was praised for his resolution of civil unrest over low wages in… — The Bahamas · tree and pragmatics
description: He was praised for his resolution of civil unrest over low wages in Nassau in June 1942, when there was a "full-scale riot". Who acts: biography. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Bahamas» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Bahamas, sentence 102

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From Wikipedia, [«The Bahamas»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_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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He was praised for his resolution of civil unrest over low wages in Nassau in June 1942, when there was a "full-scale riot".

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**Who acts:** biography · **What happens:** praise, be, resolve · **To what, where:** biography, low wages, scale riot, civil unrest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «The Bahamas». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (biography), 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:The_Bahamas:102
# text = He was praised for his resolution of civil unrest over low wages in Nassau in June 1942, when there was a "full-scale riot".
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	praised	praise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	resolution	resolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	unrest	unrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Nassau	Nassau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
17	1942	1942	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	riot	riot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | past · passive |  | biography |  | low wages in Nassau |  | for biography's resolution of civil unrest | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | a scale riot |  |  | june |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **resolve** |  | biography | civil unrest |  |  |  |  | nom resolution «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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, «The 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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