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title: Inter-island transport is conducted primarily via ship and air. — The Bahamas · tree and pragmatics
description: Inter-island transport is conducted primarily via ship and air. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Bahamas» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Bahamas, sentence 258

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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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Inter-island transport is conducted primarily via ship and air.

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**What happens:** conduct

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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: 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:258
# text = Inter-island transport is conducted primarily via ship and air.
1	Inter	inter	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	transport	transport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	via	via	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | inter island transport; via ship and air; primarily *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP» |

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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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