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title: The stratigraphy of the islands consists of the Middle Pleistocene O… — The Bahamas · tree and pragmatics
description: The stratigraphy of the islands consists of the Middle Pleistocene Owl's Hole Formation, overlain by the Late Pleistocene Grotto Beach Formation, and then the Holocene Rice Bay Formation. Who acts: stratigraphy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Bahamas» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Bahamas, sentence 187

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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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The stratigraphy of the islands consists of the Middle Pleistocene Owl's Hole Formation, overlain by the Late Pleistocene Grotto Beach Formation, and then the Holocene Rice Bay Formation.

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**Who acts:** stratigraphy · **What happens:** consist, overlie · **To what, where:** Hole Formation

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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 (stratigraphy), 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:187
# text = The stratigraphy of the islands consists of the Middle Pleistocene Owl's Hole Formation, overlain by the Late Pleistocene Grotto Beach Formation, and then the Holocene Rice Bay Formation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stratigraphy	stratigraphy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	consists	consist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Middle	Middle	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Pleistocene	Pleistocene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	Hole	Hole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Formation	formation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	overlain	overlie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	Late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Pleistocene	Pleistocene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	Grotto	Grotto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Beach	Beach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Formation	formation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	Holocene	Holocene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	Rice	Rice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Formation	formation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | present | the stratigraphy of the islands |  |  |  |  | of the Middle Pleistocene Owl's Hole Formation | tree rules |
| 2 | **overlie** | participle |  | the Middle Pleistocene Owl's Hole Formation *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Beach Formation | tree rules |

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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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