Marshall Islands, sentence 97

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 Marshalls also continued to be a major producer of copra during the Japanese period, with the taking over the Jaluit Company's operations and building upon the German colonial infrastructure.

Who acts: Marshalls, Jaluit Company · What happens: continue, be, operate · To what, where: major producer

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 (Marshalls, Jaluit Company), 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	2 Marshalls	det
2	Marshalls	marshall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 continued	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 continued	advmod
4	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	9 producer	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 producer	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 producer	det
8	major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 producer	amod
9	producer	producer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 continued	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 copra	case
11	copra	copra	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 producer	nmod
12	during	during	ADP	_	15 period	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 period	det
14	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 period	amod
15	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 continued	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 taking	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 taking	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 taking	det
19	taking	taking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 continued	obl
20	over	over	ADP	_	25 operations	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Company	det
22	Jaluit	Jaluit	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Company	compound
23	Company	Company	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 operations	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 Company	case
25	operations	operation	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 taking	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 building	cc
27	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taking	conj
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 infrastructure	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 infrastructure	det
30	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 infrastructure	amod
31	colonial	colonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 infrastructure	amod
32	infrastructure	infrastructure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taking	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	the Marshalls		during the Japanese period	with the taking over the Jaluit Company's operations upon the German colonial infrastructure and building	vn continue-55.3 «NP.eventuality V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with taking=Subeventuality
2	is a	to-infinitive	the Marshalls not said here	a major producer		of copra	tree rules
3	operate		the Jaluit Company				nom operation «state 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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Marshall Islands, sentence 97