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title: They settled mostly on northwest Andros Island, where they developed… — The Bahamas · tree and pragmatics
description: They settled mostly on northwest Andros Island, where they developed the village of Red Bays. Who acts: hundreds. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Bahamas» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Bahamas, sentence 71

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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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They settled mostly on northwest Andros Island, where they developed the village of Red Bays.

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**Who acts:** hundreds · **What happens:** settle, develop · **To what, where:** village

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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 (hundreds), 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:71
# text = They settled mostly on northwest Andros Island, where they developed the village of Red Bays.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	northwest	northwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Andros	Andros	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	developed	develop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Bays	Bay	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | past | hundreds *= hundred* |  |  |  |  | on northwest Andros Island; mostly *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on island=Topic |
| 2 | **develop** | past | hundreds *= hundred* | the village of Red Bays |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Product |

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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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