Solomon Islands, sentence 89
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.
U.S. Admiral William Halsey, the commander of Allied forces during the Battle for Guadalcanal, recognised the coastwatchers' contributions by stating "The coastwatchers saved Guadalcanal and Guadalcanal saved the South Pacific."
Who acts: U.S., coastwatchers, Guadalcanal · What happens: ally, recognise, state, save, contribute · To what, where: contributions, South Pacific · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (U.S., coastwatchers, Guadalcanal), 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 | U.S. | U.S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 recognised | nsubj |
| 2 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 U.S. | flat |
| 3 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 U.S. | list |
| 4 | Halsey | Halsey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 William | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 commander | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 commander | det |
| 7 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 U.S. | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 forces | case |
| 9 | Allied | ally | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 forces | amod |
| 10 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 commander | nmod |
| 11 | during | during | ADP | _ | 13 Battle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Battle | det |
| 13 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 forces | nmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Guadalcanal | case |
| 15 | Guadalcanal | Guadalcanal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Battle | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 U.S. | punct |
| 17 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 coastwatchers | det |
| 19 | coastwatchers | coastwatcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 contributions | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 19 coastwatchers | case |
| 21 | contributions | contribution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 recognised | obj |
| 22 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 23 stating | mark |
| 23 | stating | state | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 recognised | advcl |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 saved | punct |
| 25 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 coastwatchers | det |
| 26 | coastwatchers | coastwatcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 saved | nsubj |
| 27 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stating | conj |
| 28 | Guadalcanal | Guadalcanal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 saved | nsubj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Guadalcanal | cc |
| 30 | Guadalcanal | Guadalcanal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Guadalcanal | conj |
| 31 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 saved | ccomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Pacific | det |
| 33 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Pacific | compound |
| 34 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 saved | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 recognised | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ally | participle | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | recognise | past | U.S. William | the coastwatchers's contributions | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer contribution=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | state speech: other | gerund | U.S. William not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | save in a quote | past | the coastwatchers | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | save in a quote | past | Guadalcanal and Guadalcanal | the South Pacific | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pacific=Theme | ||||
| 6 | contribute | the coastwatchers | nom contribution «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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