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title: Most islands have ridges ranging from 30 to 45 m, though Cat Island… — The Bahamas · tree and pragmatics
description: Most islands have ridges ranging from 30 to 45 m, though Cat Island has a ridge 60 m in height. Who acts: Most islands, ridges, Cat Island. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Bahamas» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Bahamas, sentence 181

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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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Most islands have ridges ranging from 30 to 45 m, though Cat Island has a ridge 60 m in height.

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**Who acts:** Most islands, ridges, Cat Island · **What happens:** have, range · **To what, where:** ridges, 30 m, ridge, height

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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 (Most islands, ridges, Cat Island), 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:181
# text = Most islands have ridges ranging from 30 to 45 m, though Cat Island has a ridge 60 m in height.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ridges	ridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	ranging	range	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	45	45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	Cat	Cat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ridge	ridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Most islands | ridges |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ridge=Patient |
| 2 | **range** | gerund | ridges *not said here* |  |  | 30 m |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from m=Location |
| 3 | **have** | present | Cat Island | a ridge  60 m |  | height |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ridge=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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