Marshall Islands, sentence 34

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 southern islands receive heavier rainfall than the north, so communities in the wet south subsisted on prevalent taro and breadfruit, while northerners were more likely to subsist on pandanus and coconuts.

Who acts: southern islands, northerners · What happens: receive, subsist, be · To what, where: heavier 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 (southern islands, northerners), 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 islands	det
2	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 islands	amod
3	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 receive	nsubj
4	receive	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 rainfall	amod
6	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 receive	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 north	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 north	det
9	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 receive	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wet	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 wet	advmod
12	communities	community	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wet	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 wet	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wet	det
15	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 receive	parataxis
16	south	south	ADV	_	17 subsisted	advmod
17	subsisted	subsist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 wet	advcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 taro	case
19	prevalent	prevalent	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taro	compound
20	taro	taro	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 subsisted	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 breadfruit	cc
22	breadfruit	breadfruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taro	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 likely	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 likely	mark
25	northerners	northerner	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 likely	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 likely	cop
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 likely	advmod
28	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wet	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 subsist	mark
30	subsist	subsist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 likely	xcomp
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 pandanus	case
32	pandanus	pandanus	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 subsist	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 coconuts	cc
34	coconuts	coconut	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 pandanus	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 receive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	receive	present	the southern islands	heavier rainfall	than the north	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rainfall=Theme
2	subsist	participle	the southern islands not said here		on prevalent taro and breadfruit; south property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on taro=Patient
3	is	past	northerners		likely property	tree rules
4	subsist	to-infinitive	northerners not said here		on pandanus and coconuts	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on pandanus=Patient

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Marshall Islands», 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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Marshall Islands, sentence 34