Marshall Islands, sentence 15
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German copra traders dominated the economy in the 1870s and 1880s, and the German Empire annexed the Marshalls as a protectorate in 1885.
Who acts: German copra traders, German Empire · What happens: dominate, annex · To what, where: economy, 1870s, Marshalls, 1885
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Marshall Islands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (German copra traders, German Empire), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 traders | amod |
| 2 | copra | copra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 traders | compound |
| 3 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dominated | nsubj |
| 4 | dominated | dominate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 economy | det |
| 6 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dominated | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1870s | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 1870s | det |
| 9 | 1870s | 1870 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 4 dominated | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 1880s | cc |
| 11 | 1880s | 1880 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 9 1870s | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 annexed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 annexed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Empire | det |
| 15 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Empire | compound |
| 16 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 annexed | nsubj |
| 17 | annexed | annex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dominated | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Marshalls | det |
| 19 | Marshalls | marshall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 annexed | obj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 protectorate | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 protectorate | det |
| 22 | protectorate | protectorate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 annexed | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 1885 | case |
| 24 | 1885 | 1885 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 annexed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dominated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dominate | past | German copra traders | the economy | the 1870s and 1880s | vn contiguous_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme economy=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | annex | past | the German Empire | the Marshalls | 1885 | as a protectorate | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marshall=Theme |
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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