--- title: Common themes in these works are (1) an awareness of change, (2) a s… — The Bahamas · tree and pragmatics description: Common themes in these works are (1) an awareness of change, (2) a striving for sophistication, (3) a search for identity, (4) nostalgia for the old ways and (5) an appreciation of beauty. Who acts: Common themes. 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Common themes in these works are (1) an awareness of change, (2) a striving for sophistication, (3) a search for identity, (4) nostalgia for the old ways and (5) an appreciation of beauty. **Who acts:** Common themes · **What happens:** be, strive · **To what, where:** 1 awareness 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 (Common themes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:319 # text = Common themes in these works are (1) an awareness of change, (2) a striving for sophistication, (3) a search for identity, (4) nostalgia for the old ways and (5) an appreciation of beauty. 1 Common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 themes theme NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 works work NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 awareness awareness NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 19 striving strive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 csubj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 sophistication sophistication NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 identity identity NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 34 nostalgia nostalgia NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 43 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 appreciation appreciation NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 appos _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Common themes in this works | a 1 awareness | | | | of change | tree rules | | 2 | **strive** | gerund | | | | | | for sophistication | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 318](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/The_Bahamas/318/) - next →: [sentence 320](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/The_Bahamas/320/) - ↑ back to [The Bahamas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/The_Bahamas/)