Marshall Islands, sentence 165
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.
The northern atolls get 50 in of rainfall annually; the southern atolls about twice that.
Who acts: northern atolls · What happens: get · To what, where: 50, rainfall
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 (northern atolls), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 atolls | det |
| 2 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 atolls | amod |
| 3 | atolls | atoll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 rainfall | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rainfall | case |
| 8 | rainfall | rainfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 9 | annually | annually | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 atolls | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 atolls | det |
| 12 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 atolls | amod |
| 13 | atolls | atoll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | parataxis |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 twice | advmod |
| 15 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 that | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 atolls | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the northern atolls | 50 | rainfall | the southern atolls that parataxis; annually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer 50=Stimulus |
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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