Solomon Islands, sentence 61

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.

The German presence, along with pressure from the missionaries to rein in the excesses of the coercive labour recruitment practices, known as blackbirding, prompted the British to declare a protectorate over the southern Solomons in March 1893, initially encompassing New Georgia, Malaita, Guadalcanal, Makira, Mono Island and the central Nggela Islands.

Who acts: German presence · What happens: rein, know, prompt, declare, encompass · To what, where: excesses, coercive recruitment practices, protectorate, southern Solomons, New Georgia

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 (German presence), 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	3 presence	det
2	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 presence	amod
3	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 prompted	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pressure	punct
5	along	along	ADP	_	7 pressure	case
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 pressure	case
7	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 presence	appos
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 missionaries	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 missionaries	det
10	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pressure	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 rein	mark
12	rein	rein	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 missionaries	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 excesses	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 excesses	det
15	excesses	excess	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rein	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	21 practices	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 practices	det
18	coercive	coercive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 practices	amod
19	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 recruitment	compound
20	recruitment	recruitment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 practices	compound
21	practices	practice	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 excesses	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 known	punct
23	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 practices	acl
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 blackbirding	case
25	blackbirding	blackbirding	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 known	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 presence	punct
27	prompted	prompt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 British	det
29	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 prompted	xcomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 declare	mark
31	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 British	xcomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 protectorate	det
33	protectorate	protectorate	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 declare	obj
34	over	over	ADP	_	37 Solomons	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Solomons	det
36	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Solomons	amod
37	Solomons	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Plur	33 protectorate	nmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 March	case
39	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 protectorate	nmod
40	1893	1893	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	39 March	nmod:unmarked
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 encompassing	punct
42	initially	initially	ADV	_	43 encompassing	advmod
43	encompassing	encompass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 prompted	advcl
44	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Georgia	amod
45	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 encompassing	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Malaita	punct
47	Malaita	Malaita	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Georgia	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 Guadalcanal	punct
49	Guadalcanal	Guadalcanal	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Georgia	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 Makira	punct
51	Makira	Makira	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Georgia	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 Island	punct
53	Mono	Mono	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 Island	compound
54	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Georgia	conj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 Islands	cc
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Islands	det
57	central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 Islands	amod
58	Nggela	Nggela	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Islands	compound
59	Islands	Island	PROPN	Number=Plur	43 encompassing	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 prompted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rein	to-infinitive	the German presence not said here		the excesses of the coercive recruitment practices		tree rules
2	know	participle		the coercive recruitment practices not said here		as blackbirding	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as blackbirding=Attribute
3	prompt	past	the German presence			british property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition
4	declare speech: other	to-infinitive	the German presence not said here	a protectorate	the southern Solomons	in March 1893	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protectorate=Attribute
5	encompass	gerund	the German presence not said here	New Georgia and Malaita and Guadalcanal and Makira and Mono Island		the central Nggela Islands conj; initially property	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot georgia=Theme

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Solomon Islands», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Solomon Islands, sentence 61