Marshall Islands, sentence 85
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 German commercial interests formed the joint-stock Jaluit Company, which was responsible for financing the colony's administration.
Who acts: German commercial interests, Jaluit Company, colony · What happens: form, be, finance, administer · To what, where: Jaluit Company, administration
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 (German commercial interests, Jaluit Company, colony), 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 | 4 interests | det |
| 2 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 interests | amod |
| 3 | commercial | commercial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 interests | amod |
| 4 | interests | interest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 formed | nsubj |
| 5 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Company | det |
| 7 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stock | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 joint | punct |
| 9 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Company | nsubj |
| 10 | Jaluit | Jaluit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Company | compound |
| 11 | Company | Company | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 formed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 responsible | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 responsible | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 responsible | cop |
| 15 | responsible | responsible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Company | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 financing | mark |
| 17 | financing | finance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 responsible | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 colony | det |
| 19 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 administration | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 colony | case |
| 21 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 financing | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past | the German commercial interests | the Jaluit Company joint stock | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Jaluit Company joint stock | responsible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | finance | gerund | the Jaluit Company joint stock not said here | the colony's administration | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | administer | the colony | nom administration «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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