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title: As under the Westminster system, the prime minister may dissolve Par… — The Bahamas · tree and pragmatics
description: As under the Westminster system, the prime minister may dissolve Parliament and call a general election at any time within a five-year term. Who acts: prime minister. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Bahamas» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Bahamas, sentence 202

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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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As under the Westminster system, the prime minister may dissolve Parliament and call a general election at any time within a five-year term.

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**Who acts:** prime minister · **What happens:** dissolve, call · **To what, where:** Parliament, general election · **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 (prime minister), 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:202
# text = As under the Westminster system, the prime minister may dissolve Parliament and call a general election at any time within a five-year term.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Westminster	Westminster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	within	within	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dissolve** | may | the prime minister | Parliament |  |  |  | as the Westminster system | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parliament=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive | the prime minister *not said here* | a general election |  |  | time | within a year term | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent election=Recipient |

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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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