Marshall Islands, sentence 63
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From the 1820s through the 1850s, the Marshall Islanders became increasingly hostile to western vessels, possibly because of violent punishments that sea captains exacted for theft as well as the abduction of Marshallese people for sale into slavery on Pacific plantations.
Who acts: Marshall Islanders, that · What happens: become, captain, exact, abduct · To what, where: 1820s, sea captains, slavery, Marshallese people
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 (Marshall Islanders, that), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 1820s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 1820s | det |
| 3 | 1820s | 1820 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 11 became | obl |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 1850s | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 1850s | det |
| 6 | 1850s | 1850 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 1820s | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 1820s | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Islanders | det |
| 9 | Marshall | Marshall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Islanders | compound |
| 10 | Islanders | Islander | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 became | nsubj |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | increasingly | increasingly | ADV | _ | 13 hostile | advmod |
| 13 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 became | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 vessels | case |
| 15 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 vessels | amod |
| 16 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hostile | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 possibly | punct |
| 18 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 11 became | xcomp |
| 19 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 22 punishments | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 because | fixed |
| 21 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 punishments | amod |
| 22 | punishments | punishment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 possibly | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 captains | nsubj |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 captains | compound |
| 25 | captains | captain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 punishments | conj |
| 26 | exacted | exact | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 captains | acl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 theft | case |
| 28 | theft | theft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 exacted | obl |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 33 abduction | cc |
| 30 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 as | fixed |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 as | fixed |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 abduction | det |
| 33 | abduction | abduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 exacted | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 people | case |
| 35 | Marshallese | marshallese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 people | amod |
| 36 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 abduction | nmod |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 sale | case |
| 38 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 people | nmod |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 slavery | case |
| 40 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 exacted | obl |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 plantations | case |
| 42 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 plantations | compound |
| 43 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 slavery | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the Marshall Islanders | the 1820s through the 1850s | hostile property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | captain | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | exact | participle | sea captains not said here | slavery on Pacific plantations | for theft; the abduction of Marshallese people for sale conj | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | abduct | Marshallese people for sale | nom abduction «act transitive»: of=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.
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