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title: Allegations of corruption, links with drug cartels and financial mal… — The Bahamas · tree and pragmatics
description: Allegations of corruption, links with drug cartels and financial malfeasance within the Bahamian government failed to dent Pindling's popularity. Who acts: Allegations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Bahamas» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Bahamas, sentence 117

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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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Allegations of corruption, links with drug cartels and financial malfeasance within the Bahamian government failed to dent Pindling's popularity.

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**Who acts:** Allegations · **What happens:** fail, not dent · **To what, where:** popularity

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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 (Allegations), 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:117
# text = Allegations of corruption, links with drug cartels and financial malfeasance within the Bahamian government failed to dent Pindling's popularity.
1	Allegations	allegation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	links	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	drug	drug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cartels	cartel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	financial	financial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	malfeasance	malfeasance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	within	within	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Bahamian	bahamian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	dent	dent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	Pindling	Pindling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	popularity	popularity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | past | Allegations of corruption |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **dent** | to-infinitive | Allegations of corruption *not said here* | Pindling's popularity |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent popularity=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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