Solomon Islands, sentence 75
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However, the colony remained something of a backwater, with education, medical and other social services being under the administration of the missionaries.
Who acts: colony, other social services · What happens: remain, be · To what, where: something, administration
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 (colony, other social services), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 remained | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 colony | det |
| 4 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | nsubj |
| 5 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 remained | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 backwater | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 backwater | det |
| 9 | backwater | backwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 something | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 education | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 education | case |
| 12 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 medical | punct |
| 14 | medical | medical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 education | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 administration | cc |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 services | amod |
| 17 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 services | amod |
| 18 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 administration | nsubj |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 administration | cop |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 administration | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 administration | det |
| 22 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 medical | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 missionaries | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 missionaries | det |
| 25 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 administration | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the colony | something of a backwater | with education; however property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme something=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | other social services | the administration | of the missionaries | tree rules |
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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