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title: Bahamas is not a part of the West Indies Cricket Board, so players a… — The Bahamas · tree and pragmatics
description: Bahamas is not a part of the West Indies Cricket Board, so players are not eligible to play for the West Indies cricket team. Who acts: Bahamas, players. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Bahamas» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Bahamas, sentence 342

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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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Bahamas is not a part of the West Indies Cricket Board, so players are not eligible to play for the West Indies cricket team.

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**Who acts:** Bahamas, players · **What happens:** not be, play · **To what, where:** part

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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 (Bahamas, players), 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:342
# text = Bahamas is not a part of the West Indies Cricket Board, so players are not eligible to play for the West Indies cricket team.
1	Bahamas	Bahamas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Indies	Indy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	compound	_	_
10	Cricket	Cricket	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Board	Board	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	eligible	eligible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Indies	Indy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	cricket	cricket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Bahamas | a part |  |  |  | of the Indies Cricket Board | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | players |  |  |  |  | eligible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | to-infinitive | players *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for West Indies's cricket team | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for team=Eventuality |

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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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