Solomon Islands, sentence 10
From Wikipedia, «Solomon 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.
In June 1893, Captain Herbert Gibson of declared the southern Solomon Islands a British protectorate.
Who acts: Herbert Gibson · What happens: declare · To what, where: southern Solomon Islands
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Solomon Islands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Herbert Gibson), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 June | case |
| 2 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 declared | obl |
| 3 | 1893 | 1893 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 June | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 June | punct |
| 5 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Herbert | compound |
| 6 | Herbert | Herbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Gibson | compound |
| 7 | Gibson | Gibson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 declared | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Gibson | obl |
| 9 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Islands | det |
| 11 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Islands | amod |
| 12 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Islands | compound |
| 13 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 declared | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 protectorate | det |
| 15 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 protectorate | amod |
| 16 | protectorate | protectorate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Islands | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | Herbert Gibson | the southern Solomon Islands | june | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Attribute |
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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