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The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas theoretically divided the new territories between the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Portugal, placing the Bahamas in the Spanish sphere; however, they did little to press their claim on the ground. **Who acts:** 1494 Treaty, Bahamas · **What happens:** divide, place, do, press, claim · **To what, where:** new territories, Bahamas, Spanish sphere, little, claim, ground 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 (1494 Treaty, Bahamas), 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:37 # text = The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas theoretically divided the new territories between the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Portugal, placing the Bahamas in the Spanish sphere; however, they did little to press their claim on the ground. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 1494 1494 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 Treaty Treaty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Tordesillas Tordesillas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 theoretically theoretically ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 divided divide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 territories territory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 between between ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Kingdom Kingdom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Castile Castile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Kingdom Kingdom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 placing place VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Bahamas Bahamas PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 Spanish Spanish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 sphere sphere NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 however however ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 press press VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **divide** | past | the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas | the new territories | | | | between the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Portugal; theoretically *property* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Theme | | 2 | **place** | gerund | the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas *not said here* | the Bahamas | | the Spanish sphere | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bahamas=Theme in sphere=Destination | | 3 | **do** | past | Bahamas | little | | | | however *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Eventuality | | 4 | **press** | to-infinitive | Bahamas *not said here* | Bahamas's claim | | the ground | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme | | 5 | **claim** | | Bahamas | | | the ground | | | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/The_Bahamas/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/The_Bahamas/38/) - ↑ back to [The Bahamas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/The_Bahamas/)