Marshall Islands, sentence 342
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.
As of 2007 power authorities, private companies, and entrepreneurs on the islands had been experimenting with coconut oil as alternative to diesel fuel for vehicles, power generators, and ships.
Who acts: entrepreneurs · What happens: experiment, diesel · To what, where: 2007 power authorities, fuel
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 (entrepreneurs), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 authorities | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | 2007 | 2007 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 authorities | nummod |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 authorities | compound |
| 5 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 companies | punct |
| 7 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 companies | amod |
| 8 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 authorities | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 experimenting | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 experimenting | cc |
| 11 | entrepreneurs | entrepreneur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 experimenting | nsubj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 islands | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 islands | det |
| 14 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 entrepreneurs | nmod |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 experimenting | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 experimenting | aux |
| 17 | experimenting | experiment | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 authorities | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 oil | case |
| 19 | coconut | coconut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 oil | compound |
| 20 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 experimenting | obl |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 alternative | case |
| 22 | alternative | alternative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 experimenting | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 diesel | mark |
| 24 | diesel | diesel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 experimenting | advcl |
| 25 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 diesel | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 vehicles | case |
| 27 | vehicles | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 diesel | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 generators | punct |
| 29 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 generators | compound |
| 30 | generators | generator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 vehicles | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ships | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 ships | cc |
| 33 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 vehicles | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 authorities | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | experiment | past · perfect · progressive | entrepreneurs on the islands | 2007 power authorities and private companies not said here | with coconut oil; as alternative | tree rules | |||
| 2 | diesel | to-infinitive | entrepreneurs on the islands not said here | fuel | for vehicles and power generators and ships | tree rules |
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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