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title: In 2013, 'Spurs' became the first Premier League club to play an exh… — The Bahamas · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2013, 'Spurs' became the first Premier League club to play an exhibition match in the Bahamas, facing the Jamaica men's national team. Who acts: Spurs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Bahamas» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Bahamas, sentence 355

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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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In 2013, 'Spurs' became the first Premier League club to play an exhibition match in the Bahamas, facing the Jamaica men's national team.

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**Who acts:** Spurs · **What happens:** become, play, face · **To what, where:** first League club, 2013, exhibition match, Bahamas, national team

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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 (Spurs), 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:355
# text = In 2013, 'Spurs' became the first Premier League club to play an exhibition match in the Bahamas, facing the Jamaica men's national team.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
10	Premier	Premier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	exhibition	exhibition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Bahamas	Bahamas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	facing	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Jamaica	Jamaica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Spurs | the first League club |  |  |  | in 2013 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2013=Result |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | Spurs *not said here* | a exhibition match |  | the Bahamas |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme |
| 3 | **face** | gerund | Spurs *not said here* | the Jamaica men's national team |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme team=Destination |

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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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