Marshall Islands, sentence 163
From Wikipedia, «Marshall Islands», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Many Pacific typhoons begin as tropical storms in the Marshall Islands region and grow stronger as they move west toward the Mariana Islands and the Philippines.
Who acts: Many Pacific typhoons, typhoons · What happens: begin, grow, move · To what, where: Islands region, Mariana Islands
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 (Many Pacific typhoons, typhoons), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 typhoons | amod |
| 2 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 typhoons | compound |
| 3 | typhoons | typhoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 begin | nsubj |
| 4 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 storms | case |
| 6 | tropical | tropical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 storms | amod |
| 7 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 begin | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 region | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 region | det |
| 10 | Marshall | Marshall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Islands | compound |
| 11 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 region | compound |
| 12 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begin | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 grow | cc |
| 14 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 begin | conj |
| 15 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 grow | xcomp |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 move | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 move | nsubj |
| 18 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 grow | advcl |
| 19 | west | west | ADV | _ | 18 move | advmod |
| 20 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 23 Islands | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Islands | det |
| 22 | Mariana | Mariana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Islands | compound |
| 23 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 move | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Philippines | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Philippines | det |
| 26 | Philippines | Philippines | PROPN | Number=Ptan | 23 Islands | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | Many Pacific typhoons | the Islands region | as tropical storms | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | grow | present | Many Pacific typhoons not said here | strong property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | move | present | typhoons = typhoon | the Mariana Islands and the Philippines | west property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme toward island=Trajectory |
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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