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title: A small portion of the Euro-Bahamian population are Greek Bahamians,… — The Bahamas · tree and pragmatics
description: A small portion of the Euro-Bahamian population are Greek Bahamians, descended from Greek labourers who came to help develop the sponging industry in the 1900s. Who acts: small portion, Greek labourers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Bahamas» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Bahamas, sentence 281

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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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A small portion of the Euro-Bahamian population are Greek Bahamians, descended from Greek labourers who came to help develop the sponging industry in the 1900s.

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**Who acts:** small portion, Greek labourers · **What happens:** be, descend, come, help, develop, sponge · **To what, where:** Greek Bahamians, Greek labourers, sponging industry, 1900s

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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 (small portion, Greek labourers), 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:281
# text = A small portion of the Euro-Bahamian population are Greek Bahamians, descended from Greek labourers who came to help develop the sponging industry in the 1900s.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	Euro	Euro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Bahamian	bahamian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Bahamians	Bahamian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	descended	descend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	labourers	labourer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	develop	develop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	sponging	sponge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	1900s	1900	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a small portion of the Euro Bahamian population | Greek Bahamians |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **descend** | participle |  | Greek Bahamians *not said here* |  | Greek labourers |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from labourer=Location |
| 3 | **come** | past | Greek labourers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | Greek labourers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **develop** | infinitive | Greek labourers *not said here* | the sponging industry |  | the 1900s |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent industry=Product |
| 6 | **sponge** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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