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title: These English Puritans established the first permanent European sett… — The Bahamas · tree and pragmatics
description: These English Puritans established the first permanent European settlement on an island which they named Eleuthera, Greek for free. Who acts: English Puritans, Puritans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Bahamas» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Bahamas, sentence 44

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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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These English Puritans established the first permanent European settlement on an island which they named Eleuthera, Greek for free.

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**Who acts:** English Puritans, Puritans · **What happens:** establish, name · **To what, where:** first permanent European settlement, island

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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 (English Puritans, Puritans), 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:44
# text = These English Puritans established the first permanent European settlement on an island which they named Eleuthera, Greek for free.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Puritans	Puritan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
7	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	Eleuthera	Eleuthera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past | this English Puritans | the first permanent European settlement |  | a island |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent settlement=Theme on island=Source |
| 2 | **name** | past | Puritans *= puritan* | a island |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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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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