Marshall Islands, sentence 319
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Following the 2015 seizure of the MV Maersk Tigris, the United States announced that its treaty obligation to defend the Marshall Islands did not extend to foreign-owned Marshallese flag vessels at sea.
Who acts: United States, treaty obligation, Marshall Islands, state · What happens: follow, announce, defend, not extend, own, seize · To what, where: 2015 seizure, owned Marshallese flag vessels, Maersk Tigris · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (United States, treaty obligation, Marshall Islands, state), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 seizure | det |
| 3 | 2015 | 2015 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 seizure | nummod |
| 4 | seizure | seizure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Following | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Tigris | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tigris | det |
| 7 | MV | MV | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Maersk | compound |
| 8 | Maersk | Maersk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Tigris | compound |
| 9 | Tigris | Tigris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seizure | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 announced | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 States | det |
| 12 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 States | amod |
| 13 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 announced | nsubj |
| 14 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Tigris | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 defend | mark |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 obligation | nmod:poss |
| 17 | treaty | treaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 obligation | compound |
| 18 | obligation | obligation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 defend | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 defend | mark |
| 20 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 announced | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Islands | det |
| 22 | Marshall | Marshall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Islands | compound |
| 23 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 extend | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 extend | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 extend | advmod |
| 26 | extend | extend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 defend | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 vessels | case |
| 28 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 owned | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 foreign | punct |
| 30 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 vessels | amod |
| 31 | Marshallese | marshallese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 vessels | amod |
| 32 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 vessels | compound |
| 33 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 extend | obl |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 sea | case |
| 35 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 vessels | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Following | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | the 2015 seizure of the Maersk Tigris | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seizure=Theme | |||||
| 2 | announce speech: other | past | the United States | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | defend | to-infinitive | state's treaty obligation | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | not extend | past · do-support | the Marshall Islands | owned Marshallese flag vessels at sea | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to vessel=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | own | participle | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 6 | seize | the Maersk Tigris | nom seizure «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | obligate | state | nom obligation «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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